A WHITE CHRISTMAS!

All snuggled warmly below our Christmas tree:

Snoqualmie Falls, just 2 miles from home, after the first frigid blast. The Falls are reduced to 1/3rd the width while miniature ice falls have formed on the borders. This was taken early in the morning with the sun barely sweeping across the top of the Falls:

Flanking the Falls, all things get an special coating from the icy mist:

I was there long enough that the atmosphere changed. Did the temperature dip even lower? An ice cloud form? I dunno', but everything turned a magical cold blue. I was not using a polarizer nor did I enhance the photos, this was the real (though other-wordly) color:

Feeling cold was well worth the experience!

THE LAST OF THE 'ANGLES' ASSIGNMENT

I think I have found most of my Angles by looking up!

Yep, because here I was standing inside the skeleton of a de-skinned teepee:

A very close angle on a bridge:

Looking up yet again; a campus library ceiling:

The ribs of an umbrella; I love the angles-on-angles:

POTD CHALLENGE: ANGLES

I guess this will be the last of my Angle shots because the week is over. I have had fun looking for angles! Here is a playground climbing rope:

Study in starkness with this bridge support overhead:

Another bridge overhead support, my favorite:

I love bridges! Here are angles in more detail on an old railroad bridge:

Looking up:

POTD CHALLENGE: ANGLES

I am having way too much fun with this category! I know I have used my piano for other categories, but this perspective highlights some angles:

Another interior shot; almost too many angles:

This features the new structure of our local ski area's snow/foot bridge:

Simplicity:

NEW CHALLENGE: ANGLES

Look what a doctor's appointment turned up! These were taken at the hospital parking lot today.

PLAYING CATCH-UP

As I explained below, I am way behind in posting. So, here are a couple for the Photo of the Day category "Paths". The season is well gone now, so thought I would give tribute to summer with this pathway to the surf, here on our coast:

And a trespasser ( actually, we are the trespassers!) on the path to the cottage:

(noting below, I really do know how to spell "catch"!)

PLAYING CATCH-UP

I haven't posted on Photo of the Day for ages and ages. I love the topics, but I am really far behind. So, I pick "Paths" to cach-up, and then I will move on to be current!

I think Pat posted one like this recently - we were on a "leafing" outing. Don't you just love to crunch and kick your way through a path like this? The wind certainly does!

My dh and I use this bike path every Saturday morning:

I love Nature's natural arches and pathways:

With any new snowfall, I take myself across the street to check out the mood of this pasture:

A local path after the first snowfall:

POTD CHALLENGE: REFLECTIONS

This submerged log doubles its shape through such a clear reflection:

Caught sight of this reflection in the mirror while browsing a gift shop:
Only the reflected part of a boat shown here; the real thing is moored at the pier:

POTD CHALLENGE: REFLECTIONS

I have missed the opportunity to post for this theme all week, so here I am on the very last day. Therefore, I have a variety of reflected objects, all straight out of the camera, and hand-held. The first one is ancient architecture reflected in modern:

This is a local scene; Mt. Si reflected in the old mill pond on a blah-weather day:
Piers look twice as long as they really are:
The last 2 are Cranes! I love that they are the same color and position. This is actually a blue heron:
And this, a construction crane on a sunny day:

POTD CHALLENGE: SUNFLARE

This first one is taken at sunset from the beach house back porch:

This one is taken at sunrise from the beach house front porch:

POTD CHALLENGE - NATURE: CAN BE WHIMSICAL!

Unfortunately, there is nothing near to this shore pine to show its size relative to its environment in this old-growth forest. So, imagine that my SUV could be cradled between the two lowest limbs, quiet easily, with room to spare. It reaches probably 150' skyward, but it is the limb growth that looks so outrageously indecisive! Yes, this is all one tree:

POTD CHALLENGE: NATURE

This is Nature at work. The coastal seastar, below was relaxing in the outgoing tide. This photo was taken with it underwater in a shallow tidepool:
Here, it begins attaching itself to a rock covered with mussels. Such rocks are exposed only on an extremely low, or minus tide:
This is a close-up of the same thing: the seastar will "capture" a mussel and make a meal of it. The time it takes to do that could be clear until the next low tide:

POTD CHALLENGE: NATURE

Nature amazed me the other night with a sun that wouldn't set in the prescribed way. There was no color stretched across the sky; instead it seemed to all be contained within the perfect orb of the sun. Even after complete darkness, the sun hung above the horizon. This, and the ones below are all sooc:

POTD CHALLENGE: NATURE

I am still here on the southern Oregon coast. This sunset photo was taken from the front porch of my sister's home. I have never seen a sunset like this before, where all the usual colors were gathered in the orb itself and not stretched out across the horizon. The sun looks like it is a cut-out, just pinned up on a backboard. It was amazing. This is one of several in a series; the last one I took during pitch darkness, but the sun looked the same. I will post it next time.
My sister's home is settled in an old-growth forest:
I am still (and ever will be!) learning my Nikon D300. I was amazed that what I saw in the viewfinder was darkness, yet because of certain settings, the photo turned out showing the real post-dusk glow:

POTD CHALLENGE: LANDSCAPES

I am far, far from my PC with its collection of my landscapes; I have brought a new laptop to the southern Oregon coast to my sister's summer home. So, mostly I will have "sea"/landscapes for the rest of this week for the challenge.
These were both taken at sunrise this morning from the bluff on my sister's property, in front of their house.

It was a minus low tide: