Coming home from Iowa recently, I passed a whole string of old, abandoned farm implements and buildings. Here are just a few.

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Here’s what it really looks like.

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Here’s another view.

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Every once in awhile I like to take photographs of spacial things, if that’s the right word—things with lines, angles, that sort of thing.

I pass by this fence every day at least once. It’s always been intriguing to me. One day I brought my camera with me to see what I could do.

What I wound up with seems to fit this week’s photo challenge, so here it is. I hope you like it.

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Winter Fantasy by Cris Coleman is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Ever since I moved eastward from Sacramento, California in 1970, I’ve been confronted with a yearly challenge: winter!

Winter in Sacramento can be described, at worst, as minimal:

1. Minimally cold (mid-30s would be a cold winter).
2. No snow (a few snowflakes once in the fifteen years I lived there).
3. No sleet (but fog was pea-soup thick).

In Missouri, winter can be described as:

1. Cold, although this year, so far, it has been positively delightful, compared to past winters, except for one short blizzard and one week of really cold, but not below zero, temperature.
2. Blizzardy from time to time.
3. Ice storms, a little less frequent than blizzards.
4. Snow, snow, snow, although this year, except for the one short-lived blizzard, has been really nice, a virtual heat wave, comparatively.
5. Slippery roads from time to time, made worse by having to drive on them throughout the night when they’re at their worse.
6. Fog here too, although generally not pea-soup thick, but sometimes.

Still, there is hope beyond winter, and this winter has been particularly hopeful. So far.

(Regarding the photo: I told you I liked reflections.)

Normally, I don't like to take snow photos . . . namely, because I really hate the snow. It's cold, inconvenient, slippery when wet, ad infinitum. Still, the interplay of light, shadow and snow on the north sides of the trees, plus its vertical-ness, was just too much to pass up.

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