winter in the country

Yesterday morning, I slipped on my Mucks, threw a coat on over my night gown, and ran out into a world gone white. I wanted to capture dawn in my back yard... for you.
The sun illuminated the fresh fallen snow with all of the magic you might imagine.

Only an hour later, I would be driving into town... past fairy forests and

sleeping corn fields...

When you live in the country you pick and choose the roads you travel on very carefully in the winter. At days end, I realized that this maybe my last evening turning down a our short cut until spring, so I snapped this familiar little woodland creek , too.

This utter beauty makes it easy for me to embrace the thoughts of the long, cold months ahead.