Photograph info: This photo was taken yesterday after a heavy snow blanketed the area Saturday night. Snow-mobilers were out making trails through farm fields and the wind was blowing the tracks around. Welcome, Winter!

Camera settings and post-processing: Shot with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II and the Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L lens at 24mm, ISO 200, f/10, 1/1600s. Basic S curve adjustment.

Thank you for visiting Durham Township!

-- Kathleen

It is really what they call... Spring Hill??
It must have swallowed quite a bitter pill.
It appears to be under the weather...
It doesn't have it all together...
It's recovering under a blanket of white chill.

Lovely winter view of the area. Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas and Happy Healthy New Year. Happy Holidays to all.

Beautiful colors, like the fish eye effect

Happy Winter Solstice, Kathleen. Lovely picture. There is something about some of your photos, like this one, that they appear to "move" as I scroll down the photo. Interesting. Anyway, starting tomorrow the days will start getting longer so we will have more light. That is good for all you photographers, huh!! Happy Holidays.

Technically, today is mid-winter day, or winter solstice. Not the first day of winter - that's a common media-generated misconception.

Beautiful Winter scene. Nice way to welcome Winter in Durham Township.

Dang! JPH, you're getting better every day.

Beautiful white and blue.

In view of the soft curves at work here, perhaps your legal department (and Brian) can sign off on "The First Wave of Winter". Any thing which could make me feel better than your "looks like a painting to me" series of grand exteriors would require a doctor's prescription and a credit card, so throw another "thank you Kathleen" onto the humomgos pile before going back outside.

And a nice piece of work from Jon too. (Even though poetry, like bank robbery, goes down best as an inside job:)

It's snowing in italy too!!! It's 23,02, hopefully tomorrow morning i'll have some beautiful blue skyes to try match this lovely photo. Wish me luck Kathleen ;)

Nice shot to welcome winter - It's nice to see these shots while I wait for the summer to really hit down here in Australia!

Hello winter! Beautiful shot. Sounds like we will have many more opportunities for these types of photos in our area this year.

Wonderful advent to the winter season. Here in Alabama today it was above 60 degrees. I took advantage of the brief warm spell to rake leaves and needles. Beautiful shot.

Just what is this season of holly and pine?
Let's take a few moments our thoughts to refine.
Is it giving and getting, the jingling of songs
Or something much deeper, oh, for which our soul longs?
Underneath the clamor and good will all around
The message of old with some digging can be found.
God's only Son, the Messiah, delivered in a manger,
Prince of Peace, Savior, to rescue us from danger.
So consider this message, appropriate it if true.
It changed my life and it is my Christmas wish for you.

Thanks Kathleen for the beauty shared with us and to the greater community of commenters who have become my friends. JON :-)

Oh wow Jon. You got us all crying on Christmas.
Your best poem ever!

Nice photo, Kathleen. I enjoy how you use contrast in your images. Beautiful blue sky - makes me want to be out there.

Dear Ms Connally,

May I here extend an appropriate personal seasonal sentiment upon the Connally household, your production staff and troop of regular players. Not sure about Durham Township, but it is Xmas Eve in SW Idaho. Here we currently suffer meager traces of a 1-1/2" snow that's 4 days old. (Not exactly Currier and Ives.) So like millions of other Americans who would otherwise be forced to endure an Off-White Xmas, I can throw another chunk of MDF, OSB or New York Times into the studio stove, pour a beverage of choice, and enjoy an appropriate, professionally prepared Xmas Vista Con Blanco, (which regularly exemplifies what a nice girl like you does in a place like that!) I ask you, Kathleen, does it get any better? Well if that were not enough, I also get a bonus seasonally well-adjusted literary offering from the pen of AWTDT's Poet Laureate, the Right Honorable JPH! AND YET, it gets even better, for like all AWTDT Websters, I share mass (consciousness) anticipation of soon opening the next gift...and the next...and the...

So may the special meaning which this time of year has for you be magnified utilizing a formula which incorporates accelerated multiples based on your "sharing-based" performance record. It's your Christmas Equation; (A really big number raised to a really higher power) x (a very lot of Ho,Ho,Ho's)=(MX2U)x(2009) Now, that's fair and balanced.