Dreaming of spring

What can I say! Color is hard to find and muted when found.  This is from Lion's Park in St. Croix Falls where a carpet of woodland ephemerals will someday replace this blanket of white.

Technical: Lightroom used to push white slider to its limit. Shadow slider used to recover branches and leaves

Autumn Story

Most of us view autumn as the end of growth and the beginning of winter when plants hold there breath until spring. That's the main event but fungi are coming out of fallen logs and stumps, experiencing a growth spurt in the waning warm months of the year. 

Fading Color

I was a little late getting to Lion's Park in St. Croix Falls for peak color and had to look for isolated pockets of color. This leaf covered rock caught my attention yesterday afternoon. My eye starts at the bottom, jumps the log, and ends at the diagonal tree in the upper right. 

Technical: 1.3 second exposure, f 16, 14 mm on Canon 7D. Lightroom used for ND filter in upper right.