When I Went Outside This Morning...

This spectacular image, and more awaited me. I was waiting for the bus with the boys, and I had to run back in and grab my camera once they left to show you this epic beauty!

We don't clean up our yard in the fall anymore. We read that it's best for a lot of reasons to leave your plants in over the winter, the most important being for the bugs.

Wildlife is hibernating. Lots and lots of insects and frogs, and who knows what else, are out there in your garden overwintering in leaf litter, on twigs, even in the top layer of soil. What happens when you "clean up" the leaves and chop down the plants? You might be tossing out a black swallowtail chrysalis or a mantis egg case, or stepping on a mourning cloak butterfly.

Source

Oooh I just love hoarfrost!

Let's Walk Down to the Water

Ooooh wow, it's high tide and it looks just like a frozen lake. This is actually a cove in the North Atlantic ocean, I'll show you later what it looked like at low tide. You can see the sun is just beginning to light up the tops of the trees. It's around 7:55 am.

The darkest day of the year will be here soon, and then we can get our beautiful light back in our lives...Our eldest son @EddieBowes goes to school in the dark right now, even with so-called 'daylight savings time' which I actually call 'going full retard'. Daylight savings is the most hurtin' thing, it messes with our bodies, and nothing substantial is gained.

Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous

Wow, actually the tide is higher than usual, it must be a spring tide, which makes sense because it was just a full moon.

Ice water way inshore.

A Brief Interlude

Awwww....look how cute my free ranging chickens are :) But you know what's not cute?

When they sneak up on the deck 10 times a day and crap all over it.

If you enjoy having a clean deck, I would suggest not letting your chooks free range lol

Low Tide

Walking down to the water...or should I say lack thereof.

Those logs were where the water line was in the morning. I was standing on them, pretty far back, trying to take photos and not fall.

And this is where the ice stays until the tide rises back up again. The cycle continues on and on through the winter, as more and more ice builds up, it ends up getting pretty dramatic back here.

Thank you for coming on another "WalkWithMe" I hope you enjoyed today's shots! I'd like to go on a walk where you live too, so if you get out there for one, take a few pics, and post about your walk using the tag "walkwithme". I'll check the tag regularly to upvote and give encouragement. Let's get fresh air and fitness together!

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