afterthestorm, backwoods

The nor'easter has passed out to sea, and in its wake, there are stories of truly epic amounts of snow to our south and west (more than two feet in Central Park... astounding!). After I finished shoveling  the half-foot of accumulation—thank you wrist gods and my next door neighbor, who drove down with his front-end loader to scoop out the heavy mess left by the snowplows—I opted to tramp down a cross-country ski trail then snowshoe to the Noah-sized stream in the backwoods to check for animal tracks. Curiously, there was no sign whatsoever of vertebrate life... not so much as a deer ventured through the forest. So, dSLR in hand, I focused on other things, from the stream snowscape to curious backlit blobs of snow. I had to work quick, for it was warming up and snow that had earlier covered entire branches was rapidly leaving the scene.