PHOTOPAGE 288

PHOTOPAGE 288

Early March 2005

March, a month that I've come to think of as the most barren looking of all. Though, as you can see with the Snow Drops. . .not entirely. The snow has mostly melted and the leaves are mostly gone - the ground and sky are tilled, prepared for the greening.

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288.7 Winter Spider

288. Ice Snake

288.9 Drip

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288.1 Ice Bells

<- Ice Bells (my name), ever silvery clear, bobbing in the air with the breeze in the cold, attached to overhanging twigs and such that have dipped into the river. Here's (click) another.

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288.2 Snow Drops

Mystery flying Insect (right)-> A mystery because I don't have a simple look-up process - I've seen these before. They seem to be comfortable in snow - Any body know? I got it, but it took me to 2006 . . .a Stone Fly

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288.10 Stone Fly

Below, a Sycamore seed resting on snow-ice. It took the late snowfall to make me see the rhythm of the seed drop - hanging on the tree all winter, dropping to the ground for Spring. They were scattered all over the snow.

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288.3 Raritan River View

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288.4 Sycamore Seed

. . .drip. . .drip. . .

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288.11 Red Leaf

In order to see the business part of the Snow Drop (below), you'd have to be the size of a mouse or tip the plant backward, as I did.

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Above. . . some early color of the Spring kind - and, to the left . . .bark from a fallen tree.

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288.5 Boxelder Bark

288.6 Snow Drop Closeup