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Tree with Snow

It's +2 degrees right now and overcast.  According to the forecast, it's supposed to be +30 tomorrow.  

Hopefully I can get out and take some photos in town. 

This tree is right outside my window, so very easy to grab an image.  

It gets light outside about 10 am and gets dark around 4:30 pm. 

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Lots of Snow

It's -30.  The air is dry.  The scenery is beautiful.

This image was made in the outskirts of Fairbanks, Alaska.

For those who love winter and winter sports, this is the place to be.

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War Memorial

In downtown Abilene, the courthouse has this beautiful memorial outside the front door.  A soldier and an eagle.  As you walk through the display, you can see the names of the wars that have been fought that Abileneans have been part of.  

I never really examined the memorial so closely before.

The photo was taken on an overcast winter day.

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Large Pond

Texas trivia: 

 There is only ONE natural lake in Texas but this is not it.

Although there are over 7,000 lakes in the state, only Caddo Lake in east Texas is natural.

In comparison, NY state has over 7,000 natural fresh water lakes.

Alaska has 3,197 named lakes and about 3 million un-named lakes.

A friend and I took a photo field trip today.  We were driving down a service road along one of the main highways looking for a photo op.  We stopped to photograph something else, but when I turned around I saw this partially frozen pond.  The temp was about 36 today, but in the previous days it had been in the teens and I guess it wasn't warm enough today to melt all the surface ice.