Layers of decaying wood fiber decorated by lichens and snow on the forest floor.
Surprise! Instead of a cloudy and cold day, we received a cloudless and mild (~ 30 degrees F) Saturday! It was a fine occasion for a little walk at Akron’s Nature Realm park. The woods were loaded with Black-Capped Chickadees that were being hand-fed by some visitors. I was most fascinated by snow and shadow. What, to my eye, really stood out was a pinwheel of decaying wood capped with lichens and snow — an amazing touch of color in a seeming monochrome landscape.
Spots of light fell on snow formations in the shadows of the woods.
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The pinwheel is awesome.
That was a wonderful surprise. In the summertime, we’d probably have missed it for all the greenery of the woods.