If The Snow Shoe Fits

The forecast called for frigid beauty.

It was a sunny day with bright white snow under a clear blue sky
and only a gentle wind, so most of the snow remains on the branches.
Can you think of any better contrast?

The amount becomes "significant"
when the snow on the railing is higher than it is wide.

Yep, gotta get out there to enjoy the winter beauty.

Snow and ice and everything nice.

Red, white, and blue, with a little green added
for the Italian-Americans.

The ice was probably frozen harder away from the edge
where the snow had insulated the flow from the recent cold.
FYI, snowshoes coated with ice are really, really heavy.

It's good to have a warm place to return to
after being outside in single Fahrenheit digits,
even if one warms up from walking in weighted shoes.

Later that same day,
over the still-open channel,
the reverse sunset illuminate the tops of the trees.

In the opposite direction, all that whiteness turns golden.

And the sky is no longer blue.