Another snowstorm at the farm - photos taken with a new lens
I received so many wonderful comments regarding Friday's blog, The "Blizzard" of 2010. Thank you very much. In keeping with that theme, I wanted to show you these marvelous photographs of the next snowstorm, just a few days later, taken by my blog team, Eliad Laskin and Laura Plimpton. When Eliad, my tech guy, learned of my trip to South Africa, he asked Canon to loan a very special lens for me to use on that trip, and Canon generously provided. This lens is great for distance, zooming in on faraway objects, such as what I may see on safari. A few days after the "blizzard", and before my journey, the snow was falling heavily again and Eliad and Laura were interested in seeing the capabilities of this powerful lens. They started up one of the Kawasaki Mules and ventured out into the storm. I think you will agree that these photos are quite wonderful.
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- The snow was falling thickly and heavily. I wonder what these crows were thinking?
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- This giant mound is really a snow-covered burlap-wrapped boxwood.
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- A closer look at a crow and notice the little juncos?
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- The garden fence looks as if someone spread icing on it.
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- A closer look at the ‘icing’
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- This is one of three finials atop the equipment barn.
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- A woodland stream grugling through the snow
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- So beautiful
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- This is the contemporary house on my property – it’s nearly invisible.
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- These are not hoops, but rather the canes of wild bramble.
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- These snow-covered brambles look great in the woods.
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- And the fir trees look majestic!
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- I love their sweeping branches laden with snow.
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- Taken from this angle, it looks like we’re in Yosemite National Park.
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- Snow, snow, and more snow
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- This looks almost like a fabulous painting.
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- A shot of the middle field – and very beautiful.
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- Looking further down
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- This is the little tucked away woodland shed.
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- Is this a snow-covered auto or merely a rock.
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- The small trees are larches planted on the edge of the carriage road.
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- The symbolic farm sycamore
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- A dawn redwood laden with snow
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- Another woodland stream
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- This is one of willow groves – the golden color of the bark looks great against the white snow.
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- The paddock fencing always looks stunning with a snow coat.
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- A bluebird house – I can’t wait for their return.
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- The wire roof over the chicken yard has been totally blanketed with snow.
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- An Araucana hen testing out the snow – the chickens don’t seem to mind it.
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- A Jersey Giant, a Silver Laced Wyandotte, and more Araucanas
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- And more hens clucking
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- This is a rooster chasing a hen
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- It’s certainly a change for them.
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- It’s amazing how all the snow is just sitting there.
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- White on white
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- A nice view of the houses
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- The often photographed allee of lindens
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- Meindert looks like he’s aching to go out and play in the snow.
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- A lot of snow on the bloxwood allee
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- Two of my donkeys
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- More crow atop a weeping beech
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- The tall spruces surrounding the tenant house
Photos By Eliad Laskin
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