Winter Shots

It looks like I'm pretty much done posting things about my China adventures for now, but as I keep taking pictures and I like to share them with friends and family, etc, this page will stay semi active. I'm not really going to go on about my life, since its sort of boring, so email me if you want that kind of news.

Aaaaaannnnnyway....
I know its spring now (and I'll get to those pics by fall, I promise) but I did a lot of tromping around in the winter in both Michigan and Oregon and took plenty of photos.

So yeah.

Anyway, these first few were taken in Oregon right around Christmas. I was super jet lagged and got up at 6am everyday. Kira and I drove out to the beach to watch the sunrise....it was great.



These are at sunset in a wildlife area called Jackson Bottom. Its a wetlands preserve. Mama Rae likes it much there.


These two were in color originally but I like them better in b&w.






Some crazy ice!




Ducks and beaver in this pond. (Mom says nutria, I insist they were beaver. I INSIST)




After Christmas I left the land of Everything Great and returned to Michigan, the land of Some Things Decent, where I had left all my shit five months ago.

And it snowed all the time, of course.
All of these are from various walks around Ann Arbor and Ypsi in January and February.






The Beardy Man Gremlin has chopped up ice!


It examines its kill...


This is at the Peninsular Paper Company in Ypsilanti, an awesome, very abandoned building right on the edge of the river.




Later on, in an old graveyard near Corner Brewing Company, also in Ypsi.


These ice formations were underneath an ice shelf that had formed around a tree...I went a little hog wild with the photos...








Near the Arboretum...train coming.


And going...




We played lots of disc golf in the winter- it was actually really great, no humans, no poison ivy, no underbrush to lose your discs in...
All of these next pics were taken at Rolling Hills park...


Some cool old rusty machinery in the woods.




Obsessed with the shadows on the snow...






And as we left that day...a sunset of majestic proportions...


And in order not to overload you, Ill stop there. Beardy Man and I had some other epic adventures in the snow, but I'll put those up later. Right now, its springy and green out, I'm going to make blackberry pancakes tomorrow morning and I'm moving again in a few weeks...
more winter photos to follow, and maybe springy ones after that.

Peace and photosynthesis.