Trees Most Lovely
Gwinn’s Christmas Tree Farm in Horton, Michigan.
Have a great holiday season, everyone.
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This Old House
Almost six years to the day, I’m saying goodbye to my first home.
We’re getting a weird spell this winter, in late January and early February, where the weather is warmer than seasonally appropriate. Foggy, rainy, or in the 60s. Not your typical Michigan climate.
The upside is that we’ve enjoyed a few play days outside. This past weekend, I even had a chance to take down our backyard swing set – much better than trying to unscrew frozen bolts in the bitter cold. Hopefully the warmer weather holds once it’s time to move.
I’m doing my best to capture this place before we head out. Not that it’s been a problem before, but there’s an extra sense of urgency lately.
Time’s running out.
At the Break Of Day
What I’ll miss about moving closer to the city? This.
It’s something I’ve learned while we’ve been out house hunting: I need trees, green space, a sense of privacy, nature, birds chirping, and clear seasonal changes.
I need to feel like the woods are only a short walk away. That there’ll be foggy fields on my way into work. That my home will be well shaded by trees.
I need light filtering through branches and boughs.
Lake Front Cottage
Lake Front Cottage – Horton, Michigan
Fun story: I’m walking across my neighborhood lake, out taking photos, when I look to my right and see – ahem – open water. With ducks swimming in it.
I see it just as I’m walking across the ice. And let me tell you: nothing stops your heart like seeing open water on an icy lake.
You only live twice, right?
Gwinn Tree Farm
Tree Canon
Load ’em up.
Ready for delivery.
Red and green.
Merry Christmas, everyone, from Gwinn’s Tree Farm in Horton, Michigan.
Local Barn
A landscape follow up to my favorite little local barn.
Honored to have it featured on Flickr’s Explore.
Snowed In
We here in Michigan were walloped this weekend – bitter cold, freezing winds, and tons of snowfall.
So what better to do than head out and grab some photos?
Below-zero temperatures and a hazy cloud cover made for some lovely light, especially around sunset. During the day, I had to head out and shovel my driveway, and grabbed some images while knee-deep in snow.
To cool off (ha!), I took a walk down the road to see what the rest of the neighborhood looked like. Luckily most of my neighborhood roads were plowed, but some areas were still untouched.
I didn’t get very far down the road before the conditions turned me back home. But weather like this doesn’t happen like it used to, even here in Michigan.
So why not capture the day?
