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The snow that crept up on our front screen door on Friday due to the wind.

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Cell phone picture of the Private Road.

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Just another winter image at Sky Lake. (Feb 2 2010)

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A not so lively flower near the edge of the lake...(Jan, 17 2010)

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(Thursday, January 14, 2010) Sunny days in winter always mean lots of fun icicles form on the edge of the roof to my sunroom.

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(Thursday, January 7, 2010) This is one of my favorite spots on the way into Sky Lake. The sugar maples that line both sides of the road near the West Shore have such character.

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Outside winter scene from Founders' Lodge. I made it black and white and darkened it a bit, to make it seem more like the dead of winter. Edited with Picasa.
(Taken Jan. 8th, 2010)

062.365 (Snowy Start to the New Year)

(Friday, January 1, 2010) The new year was welcomed in by more snow! This was the view from my den in the afternoon.

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Purchased a 'new to me' zoom lenses from a friend the other day, so I finally got around to playing around with it.

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(Tuesday, December 29, 2009) My new lens (Canon 50mm f/1.8 II EF) arrived today. Tried using it outside, but the windy conditions and bitter temperature sent me back inside. Set up my tripod and opened the aperture all the way (f/22) to try to capture the wind.

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The front window in our apartment this morning. Had to darken it up to make the picture more presentable.

Edited with Picasa

365:352 - Shed

Believe it or not, this little shed used to be a treehouse. My dad, never doing anything halfway, built this sturdy treehouse for my sister and me when we were in elementary school. It was complete with real windows, doors, and bunkbeds. We spent many summer days playing in the treehouse, and we slept in it with our friends on lots of occasions, as well. I remember jumping from the treehouse porch into giant drifts of snow, and I remember a friend who got nervous about being up so high, so her mom had to rescue her when she was ready to come down.

While Christie and I were in college (I think), one of the four trees that helped to support the treehouse died, meaning that it needed to come down. My clever father engineered the situation so that he could lower the building to the ground without taking it apart. Now in addition to holding a bunch of memories, the little shed holds the lawnmower and other yard tools.

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colors adjusted with Picnik

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Nothing special about this photo taken from my back porch, except that I took it with my new polarizing filter.

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I rolled over in my nice, warm bed in time to see the first rays of the rising sun beaming on the tips of the trees outside my window. Grabbed my camera and opened the guest room window and captured this sunrise.