13 and 14 January - Pages 13 and 14 - Ice, Eyes and Avalanche

Winter has truly settled in here in southern Colorado.  Icy fog is everywhere along with hard rime and soft rime on vegetation.

This is hard rime.  It has an almost comb like effect with little crystalline points of frost that stick up from the branch.  Makes for a very pretty and very frigid overall effect.

My eye is still red and angry and inhibits my using manual focus with my camera, so my pictures today are completely auto-focus - which is not always successful because I cannot always tell where the focus is locking. Oh well, I'm still trying.

Avalanche is recovering well from his "tutoring" procedure.  I'm not sure he thinks he gained a lot of knowledge.  He's very disturbed that I accompany him "en leash" for his trips outside and he's not too keen about spending more time in the crate.  I can see it is going to be more and more difficult to keep him quiet as he feels better.  He already wants to run and jump - forbidden activities for the next few days.  Here is a glimpse of earlier times.

 He will be back on the run soon.

Things are still maintaining well in the greenhouse.  This time of year with the major ups and downs in temperature presents challenges to keeping plants going in a greenhouse.  I am hoping the baby plants outside remain dormant.  It's much too early to break dormancy, but it is supposed to be 60 or above this weekend.