[ Snow lays thick over hummocked ground. The sun shines through tall ponderosas; the sky around it veiled by wisp-thin clouds. ]
It snowed all New Year’s Eve & into the next day, but the sun came out partway through the afternoon, & I just had to get outside with the camera. Snow on plants!
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[ A pyramidal, deeply eroded lump of coarse rock sits atop a treestump. Most of it is brown, but there are a few spots near the bottom, and one spot where it’s eroded more, that are white. ]
This is a salt lick! Ask me how I’m so sure!
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[A copper wire pendant lays on top of a heavily weathered wooden fence post. The post is lightly dusted with snow. ]
Taking jewelry pics in the middle of an actual snowstorm is, at the very least, pretty festive. Nice photo backdrops! Chilly feet! Beautiful scenery! Jewelry covered in snow!
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[ A pair of bunny footprints, right next to each other in the snow. ]
Product photography inevitably winds up including ‘random cool thing I saw while I was outside with a camera’ photography, because of course it does. Bunny prints!
But then I got down to business. One of the things I gotta think about with product photography is finding a good spot from which I can take pictures like this:
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[ Looking up through the branches of a tall ponderosa pine; the sun glints through the needles, lighting the branches and trunk from above. ]
I got so many good pictures that last Woods Day, & it’s a good thing, because I’ve barely had a chance to get out into the woods since. Y’all have been keeping me busy!
I’m hoping to get out again over the Christmas break, though, so there’ll be plenty more good pictures to come. In the meantime …
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[ A very close view of green-grey lichens on a hunk of pinky granite. ]
… okay lichens aren’t plants AS SUCH but close enough
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[ A pane of glass, covered in tiny, lacy frost flowers. Behind, blurry but visible, are treetops, with the sky above. ]
I hadda get up FAR too early to pick Jasper up from the train station, but hey, at least there was pretty frost on the windshield.
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[ A spray of oval green leaves sprawls over a pink granite boulder. The leaves look slightly thick, as if the plant that bears them is a succulent. ]
SO good to get back out into the woods.
I wish I’d gotten a better pic of these leaves, but, well. They’re cool-lookin anyways.
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[ A close view of a bit of half-buried root; the wood grain curls in waves like the sea in stormy weather. ]
This is a really nice place to spend the winter; I’m really enjoying it here. A yard full of Ponderosas, the mountains rising in the distance, & above it all, that deep blue Colorado sky.
Not that I got any pictures of the sky, it was all tiny stuff on the ground.
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[ A small clear spot on the forest floor, filled with old, mostly flat, rusty cans. ]
I found another can graveyard!
Of course I got a bunch of small beauties pics on Woods Day, for all that it was a short one.
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[ The last few petals of a pink rose cling to the bush, shining in the sun. ]
Starting with the one thing from that Mall Wart parking lot that wasn’t orange, the very last of the year’s roses.
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[ A small thirteen-striped ground squirrel, perhaps three inches long not counting his tail, is crouched on dry grass, looking up at the camera. ]
… at least the first two are; the others are DEFINITIVELY large, but, well.
Look at this lil dude! So brave! I suspect they get fed by campers a lot.
… to be fair, I’d dropped a cheese ball or two earlier.
Look, they just really like cheese balls.
[ The same lil dude is up on his hind legs, nibbling on something small and black that’s held between his front paws and is not a cheese ball. His tail is laid out behind him in a gentle curl. ]
The sunsets were AMAZING. I wish I’d had the energy to climb up on the van or something so I could get pics without RVs in the way, but after the chaos of moving out without a place to move INTO, we were all too exhausted for that kind of shenanigans.
… tbh we’re STILL to exhausted for that kind of shenanigans. But anyway.
[ Sunset over the lake. A narrow sliver of lake is visible along the center of the photo; below it are the silhouettes of RVs, and above it rise the mountains. The sunset glows orange along the horizon, fading to pale and then into blue at the top of the photo. ]
Can you see the crescent moon? Have another view:
[ The view is a bit closer, the colours are a bit brighter, and the crescent moon is just barely visible in the upper left corner. ]
It did this EVERY NIGHT. We stayed at Antero Reservoir for a week, and had a lovely time.
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[ Wide green leaves surround tiny, pale pinky-purple flowers, each with five long, narrow petals. ]
All photos, once again, by Jasper.
Tiny pinky-purple flowers:
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[ A view from the ground, looking up through tall Ponderosa pines. The sun barely peeps through a cluster of branches, and many of the needles are brightly lit. ]
I spent some time just laying on the ground, looking up through the trees, & it was … it was just gorgeous. They shimmered as the sun shone on the needles & the wind moved everything around; I tried to catch it on video, but it just didn’t come out right. It was very soothing to lay on the ground & just BE.
Course then Loiosh came over & stuck his butt in my face, because that’s how THAT goes.
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[ A tiny green plant, maybe an inch across, made up of several stems covered with weensy ferny leaves. ]
It is spring! There is greenery!
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[ A close view of a Ponderosa tree; the outer layers of bark are scorched black, but much of the black has broken away to show the orange-tan bark beneath. ]
The fire here was older than the fire at the last place I looked. How much older? No idea. I’m still learning this stuff.
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[ Loiosh, an orange tabby wearing a green harness, is laying at his ease on a concrete patio. His leash, also green, is draped decoratively around him, and his eyes are mostly squinted shut. ]
Friday the weather was decent & Loiosh was a WIGGLEBUTT, so I took him along to Gallup for a wander. We didn’t run into a lot of people, alas, but he did get some pets, & I got a bunch of pictures of Gallup.
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[ A grove of tall Ponderosa pines, rising over ground covered in pine needles. The sun peeks through the trees to the upper right, and sunbeams pierce the air. ]
I don’t know how to express how good it was to be back in the woods. I don’t … have the words for it, for the restful shade of the pines, the resinous scent of the air, the tiny, near-inaudible chuckle of water. The rustle of reeds & needles, the cry of a raven circling above.
… yeah okay I guess that was some words.
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[ Loiosh, an orange tabby wearing a green harness, is sniffing at the base of a Ponderosa pine. The bottom three feet or so of the bark is lightly charred. ]
Two days ago I FINALLY managed to do Woods Day. Y’all, I need to prioritize Woods Day more, because I needed that BAD. Spending a day outside working on Tyrava is good, mind you, but Woods Day is, apparently, more necessary.
I found us a new spot again — managed to find a bit of creek that had water in it! — & it turns out there’d been fire on the slope above. I didn’t see any signs of heavy equipment, so it must’ve burned out on its own. There was a whole glade of trees that had burned some but not much — the one in the picture above only lost a layer or two of bark, & is otherwise doing fine. This is why Ponderosa pines have that layered puzzle-piece bark!
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[ It’s a Royal Danish butter cookies tin. The kind we all found as kids, and pried open, expecting cookies, only to find sewing supplies. ]
Y’all know what’s in this, right?
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