small beauties

ice can make even tumbleweeds look … kinda cool, anyways

[ A close view of long, narrow silver-green leaves, waving in the breeze, looking much like undersea fronds. The stems are paler and slightly more yellow. They greenery entirely fills the picture. ] First small beauties post from the new land! There’s SO much here that’s beautiful, I can’t wait to post more.

[A small round cactus barely sticks out of tiny gravel. It’s no more than an inch across, sticks out of the ground less than half an inch, and is covered in tiny spines, all parallel to its surface.] Spring is, finally, coming in. I found a tiny cactus. Glad I didn’t find it with my

[Looking up through the trees — green ponderosa needles capped with tufts of snow, all in front of a deep blue sky veiled in sheer cirrus clouds. ] Friday there was surprise! Five inches of snow! It was LOVELY. Saturday I hadda go outside to take jewelry pics anyway, so I went for a lil

[ Snow lays thick over hummocked ground. The sun shines through tall ponderosas; the sky around it veiled by wisp-thin clouds. ] It snowed all New Year’s Eve & into the next day, but the sun came out partway through the afternoon, & I just had to get outside with the camera. Snow on plants!