No matter how many warm thoughts, this garden Buddha knows it is cold.
The stark contrast of winter: bright blue sky and long dark shadows across an expanse of white snow
Hungry yearling deer at the bird all-you-can-eat buffet
Snow-capped echinacea seed heads.
These seeds appreciate a period of cold stratification, which they are certainly getting!
A new-fallen snow presents an excellent opportunity to see who might be traveling through on their way to somewhere. All I see here is mass confusion.
If I rotate this photo clockwise, it points up to my true Z. As it is, the north wind and a system out of the Canadian Fraser River Valley kind of froze us all in place for a few days.