December 31, 2022 - New Years Eve.  Bedded down under the aspens.

 December 30, 2022 - Fog on the mountain the morning I got the Christmas tree.

December 29, 2022 - Frosty morning down Wolf Creek.

 

December 28, 2022 - Cottontails are slower at twenty degrees below zero.

 

December 27, 2022 - On Christmas Eve, just at sundown these two gentlemen came out of the aspen grove out back and crossed over Triple-Dare.

December 26, 2022 - Christmas cards.

 

December 25, 2022 - Merry Christmas from the cabin. 

 December 24, 2022 - "The only other sound's the sweep of easy wind and downy flake."

                                      Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost, 1923

                                                                      Photograph, 1992

December 23, 2022 - Santa's reindeer resting up for their ride tomorrow.  Let's see, there's Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen.  Wait, someone is missing; Vixen.....and Rudolph.

 

December 22, 2022 - The thermometer yesterday afternoon.  This morning it was colder.

 

December 21, 2022 - The morning news update from Wolf.  Shortest day of the year.  10:00am.

                                   Temperature: -18F.   Wind: 25mph.  Snowing and blowing snow.  Wind Chill: -67F?  Holy Cow!

                                   Supposed to be colder tonight.

 

 December 20, 2022 - A Bald Eagle in the top of the Grandfathers.

December 19, 2022 - I needed a break from white, snowy photographs.  This is a view from Comb Ridge in Utah.

 

December 18, 2022 - After the big snow and driving wind this week.  About two feet underneath this snowdrift is a small bridge over a tiny spring-fed creek.  The little creek is eight feet below the bridge.  The ten foot deep drift entirely fills the small creek bed.

 

December 17, 2022 - Wolf Creek and Harry McCormack Hill before the big snow and wind.  Graham Hill on the horizon.

December 16, 2022 - Gyrfalcon, Sage Grouse and English Setter; forty-three years ago.  This is how we used to spend our Christmas Holidays; camped on the high sage plains of Colorado.

 

 December 15, 2022 - Snowing in the sunshine.

December 14, 2022 - Remembering a birthday, it would have been 97.

 

December 13, 2022 - Not quite hidden.

 

December 12, 2022 - Heavy frost last week.

 

December 11, 2022 - A snowy morning at Wolf.

 

December 10, 2022 - Magpies in the Grandfathers.  (You probably can't see this one on your postage stamp sized screens.)

 

December 9, 2022 - First sun.

 

 December 8, 2022 - Foggy Morning.

December 7, 2022 - Rough-legged Hawk.

 

December 6, 2022 - A Whitetail buck beside the briar patch.

 

 December 5, 2022 - Horses on Doubledare.

December 4, 2022 - Little bucks.

 

December 3, 2022 - Happy Birthday to the young lady far away beside the Smoky Mountains.

 

December 2, 2022 - Home.  From the hill.

 

 December 1, 2022 - Roosters in the snow.