Contentment by design - Living - Places photo #1012

What a graceful way for nature to end the year. Since I posted the last photos of the snowy dawn in early November, it has been very dry and mostly unseasonably warm. Then, for this last week or so of the year, we experienced more normally cold weather and gratefully received some light snowfalls.

This morning, we awakened to a light snow of very small but feathery flakes which had coated all the needles and fine tree branches. As I was driving through this winter wonderland later in the morning, I passed the nearby and half frozen Burch lake where hundreds of geese and ducks lined the edge of the ice shelf. It was such a breathtaking view that I drove home, grabbed my camera, and returned to find that the ice was still lined with these beautiful birds, with small formations flying overhead. Ah, life!