With the temperatures dropping, the frost is beginning to cling to the trees and envelope the landscape in a coat of white.

The last of the ice bubbles for awhile.  The winter snows have come to the interior and the lakes are now covered with a winters blanket.  Now the trees fill with snow and the frost clings to just about everything during the days of 30 below zero.  My next series will be winter trees and frost.

Ozark Auction Bran from the edge of the Ozark Mountains in north west Arkansas.  This image was made between the small town of Gravette, Arkansas and Hiwassi, Arkansas.  Travels on the back roads of the world is more important than getting there quickly.

Received the Juror Award of Merit from the International Fine Art Photography Competition in Paris.  Thank you Meredith and the de Groot foundation.  It is an honor to be represented by the Grand Prix de la Decouverte.

Valley of Bisti Badlands. Looking through my files from my travels to the Bisti Badlands in New Mexico just outside of Farmington.  This is a wonderful area to explore and photograph and if you are within a days drive away, I suggest you take a detour and see for yourself.

Two trees from my travels.  The first is from Blue Cypress Lake Florida and the second is from along the road somewhere in Southern Utah.

Winter crystals form and change each day as days light grows shorter in the waning month before the winter solstice.  Along the river bank ice crystals form over the gravel bottom creating the transient forms that only exist for a short time.  Now that the winters snow has begun and the temperatures have started the slide toward the negative degrees, I wait for the trees to fill with the winters coat.