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Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons

I’m on holiday in Western Europe – in the foothills of the Alps, where the seasons have most definitely changed. (Back home in South Africa its a balmy 30 degrees Centigrade.) I’ve been mostly house-bound as the weather has been foul – flurries of icy rain interspersed with snow, and temperatures hovering both sides of zero. But a few nights back I took a little walk in the neighbourhood, had a great fall in the snow, and captured a few pics. I love the cold weather and love tramping about in the crunchy snow. Apart from one’s footsteps, and the intermittent plop of snow falling from the trees, all is dead quiet, beautiful, fresh …

Snowy trees

Snowy trees

Snowy swings

Snowy swings

Snowy bench

Snowy bench

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8 Comments on “Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons

  1. Miles
    December 7, 2012

    Love your perspectives in these :-)

  2. mybeautfulthings
    December 7, 2012

    I like the perspective too, very effective photos :)

  3. Polysyllabic Profundities
    December 8, 2012

    Love the picture of the trees and the color of the sky!! Beautiful.

  4. vastlycurious.com
    December 8, 2012

    Love the lighting- surreal!!

  5. Bianca
    December 8, 2012

    Your pictures are soooo great.

  6. The Good Villager
    December 8, 2012

    This may sound corny, but if Michael Jackson had decided on a winter setting for his Thriller video, this would have been the set used.
    Very dramatic. Nice, nice, nice.

  7. The Retiring Sort
    December 9, 2012

    Great images!

  8. allthingsboys
    December 10, 2012

    Love the red sky!

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This entry was posted on December 7, 2012 by in Photography, Travel, Weekly photo challenge, Winter and tagged , , , .

You may know me in the blogosphere as "madderinmada", "Rambling with a Cantankerous old mule" or "Vicissitudes of a Cantankerous old mule". But that's all changed and here I am living life from behind my camera lens.

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