Views from the moving car on a wet and snowy morning. The snow is coming down fairly heavily at times, and the effect is increased by the fact that most of the shots have some amount of zoom (i.e.- as you look farther through the snow, it gets snowier!). The sky is evenly grey, visibility often reduced by the falling snow, at times appearing misty or falling in large clumpy flakes. Looking up a wide 4 lane section of wet highway (passing zone) with painted yellow medians and dotted white lines between lanes. The road goes up a slight hill. On the right we see some snowy grass and power lines, to the left a dense growth of small dark spruce is next to the ditch, then a small snowy open area and a large area of mixed woods behind, with some golden poplars and dark spruce, all snow blurred/faded. A few vehicles are coming down the hill toward us, on the left side. Midway, on the left, a vehicle is stopped on a side road, facing the highway, with doors open.

Views from the moving car on a wet and snowy morning. The snow is coming down fairly heavily at times, and the effect is increased by the fact that most of the shots have some amount of zoom (i.e.- as you look farther through the snow, it gets snowier!). The sky is evenly grey, visibility often reduced by the falling snow, at times appearing misty or falling in large clumpy flakes. Looking across the ditch we see a fence of dark wooden posts and barbed wire, below it some taller grass and maybe small shrubs, gold and dark and snowy. Across the fence is a tilled field, the surface lumpy with clods of dark soil showing through the light snow cover. Farther back to left we see the hint of a farm yard, with some sort of white building showing with a row of lowish snowy willows and taller mixed woodsof gold and dark. Farther still to right is another distance and snow faded line of woods.

Last Sunday we had our 1st #snow of the season. A fairly mild to warm week, most is gone, with little bits in shady spots. Today cloudy, chance of rain/thunderstorms, but another week forecast mostly above average. #commute #alberta #autumn #landscape #SnowMother #PaganSky #Latvian #weather 📷

After some dry and melting days (though winter snow pack is far from gone), #SnowMother #blessed us with a bit of fresh #snow on Monday. Just a couple of inches/handful of cm of vital moisture #winter #spring #Alberta #Canada #nature #PaganSky
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:ooking through falling snow and blurs on the lens from melting snow. We see the end of an old trailer (mobile home) white with blue roof/edge and looking a bit 'dirty' from growth of lichens, with a small chocolate brown shed in front and a mass of dry hops vines climbing an old antenna. To each side are large dark spruce, lightened and blurred by the snow as well as several other bare shrubs and trees, some faintly red-brown from some clinging dry leaves.

Overcast and snowing afternoon, not too far from sunset, so not too bright. Looking across a snowy open area speckled with bits of dry grass and woody stems with some patches of denser growth of willows and taller dry grass -in these spots we see the red of the willows and gold of the grass. Farther back is a mixed wood with low willows and birches blurring into the snow and shadow, taller mature mixed woods farther back. The wooded areas look nearly like solid masses in the snowy blur, and sky and ground are monochromatic from near white to pale blue-grey, the distant woods also black and white from the white specks of snowflakes to varying greys of the snow coated and snow blurred trees.

grumpy old guy (me) with vintage looking glasses, black meata frame on top, silvery below with slightly darkended lenses, looking intensely at the camera (it's hard to hold a DSLR and take a selfie, I have to focus!). It's a colour photo, you can tell by my palish pinky-orange skin but my hoodie and what you can see of the fuzzy faux fleece hat with ear flaps under the hood are shades of grey to black, literally dusted on top with snow- even though i'd been brushing it off regularly. The background is snow covered woodland, also looking nearly black and white.

#NewYearsEve (afternoon) beautiful day, snowy as you can see (something like 5-8cm during the day and overnight- a few inches) temps around -8 to -10C/ 14-18F in the afternoon.
#Alberta #GetOutside #SolaceInNature #GoOutsideForMe
#landscape #photography #SniegaMate #SnowMother #animism #PaganSky

Looking across a wetland area, in front are scattered stems of golden dry grass and dead thistles along with saplings and suckers of poplars low willows and dwarf birch poking through the snow. Past that a zone of low willows, snow and frost speckled but mostly dark-reddish. Next is a line of medium height paper birch all very frost coated and nearly white, standing out against all the other trees and shrubs. Behind is mixed woods of spruce and poplar, frost and snow coated but not as bright as the birch, the spruce in particular still half dark.. To the right, much nearer, a single youngish Aspen enters the view partly, its intricate branches snow topped but still dark against the sky; it is joined by some spruce boughs from a tree just out of sight to the right. Sky and ground blur into near white in the overcast almost sunset afternoon. A filter has added a hint of violet to the scene, and white vignetting has been added around the edges.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 18 I didn't cut wood yesterday, so I went for a walk on the farm. Nippy -16C/3F (nowhere near record for this season) but beautiful after several days of fog #frost + #snow
#SnowMother + #FrostSpirits have been decorating for the coming #WinterSolstice #WitchSky #Alberta

The sun shines through a dry birch leaf still attached to the twig, golden to brown, with some dark spots and a transparent spot where probably some insect fed on it during summer, but mostly intact. It hangs down, and we see it straight on, with a much smaller leaf in front of it to the upper right, and even tinier bits above/behind. To the left we see another dark twig blurring into the snowy background, which is a mix of white with dark spots faded into grey/violet here and there. A filter has intensified the colours a bit and accentuated the violet tones in the background. A white vignette has been applied to the corners.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 10 Latvian tradition recognises numerous #LittleMothers minor goddesses or aspects of #GreatMother #Goddess who are concerned with every aspect of the human/natural world #LeafMother #SnowMother + #WindMother have been #decorating for the #WinterSolstice ❄️📷🌿 #Alberta #WitchSky

An open snowy area between mixed woods and wetland. In the foreground from lower left to mid right is a bush road- snow marked with tire tracks. Farther in, snow punctuated with clumps of dried grass, saplings etc, and a dark area of low willows and taller poplars behind. The sky above is lightly overcast, with an uneven darker blue-grey band angling upward from lower left leaving a wedge shaped area at the bottom, wider on right, of clearer sky which is golden with an area of near white where the sun almost comes through thin cloud, with another narrow band of darker cloud below the sun. A single power pole is in mid ground, left of centre, and a few branches of fine twigs from a poplar enter the frame at upper right

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 7 in mid-winter, sunset-y (and sunrise-y) horizon skies can grace much of the day. From yesterday on the #farm about an hour from #sunset #CountryLiving #Alberta #winter #landscape #photography ❄️ 📷 🌿 #SnowMother #animist #PaganSky #BorealForest

Pretty #snow falling from a few days ago- already dated: way more today! Video shows views on the acreage + across the neighbours', snow falling- trees, fields etc.
#SnowMother #animist #Latvian #Alberta #Canada #winter #GoOutsideForMe #SolaceInNature
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After some extra weeks mostly without snow (good for cutting/stashing firewood in the bush, not so good for hauling) #SnowMother Sniega Mate has been bringing snow this week (and we'll hit +/- -20C in coming days) #CountryLiving #PaganSky #animism #Alberta #winter
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A small golden apple with red blush on a stem that enters the image upper left and angles down to the right with the apple and several half dry brown-green leaves at the lower end. The stem, leaves and top of the apple all have bits of fresh snow clinging. Dapple light reaches the apple and parts of the snow. several more apples on another snowy stem coming in from upper right are blurred into the background. Btw this is an apple-crab- larger than crab-apples, smaller than regular apples.. this variety has a flavour I love, richer than most commercial apples, but not sour like crabs and very sweet.

An apple leaf, red -brown and leathery looking, is catching the sun causing the snow piled on its upper surface and the end that joins the stem to melt, dripping down and off its pointy tip. Blurred in the back ground we can see some shadowed snowy spruce boughs and an old mobile home white with some blue trim. A porch light can be seen to the left.

A wild native shrub- Distegia involucrata, a type of honeysuckle, in a sunny area of native vegetation with somewhat faded gold to brownish vegetation blurred behind it, along with several light small poplar trunks. The spear point shaped Distegia leaves are quite bright green-gold with variable brown sections (the tip of the upright leaf in centre, part of the side of one farther back, the folded over half of another in the foreground).

Several views from last week- first days after #SnowMother delivered #winter to us (not a lot, but not melted everywhere +with more likely tonight, we'll probably have snow in spots till spring) #Alberta #nature #garden #NativePlants #ShareYourWeather #GoOutsideForMe #photography 🌿🌱

Photo collage in 6 square panels, 3 across top and 3 bottom. Framed in sunset pink in centre blending out to ice blue top and bottom. Top left view up snow covered gravel road, both sides lined with trees from small willows to tamaracks poplar, birch and spruce, wetland on both sides mixing out to mixed woods, all snow dusted. Centre a dried stem of Aconitum with brown seed capsules and leaves lies just high enough above fluffy snow to cast shadows. Top right looking through a line of poplar saplings to the faint sunset behind. Bottom left a patch of golden sun hits blue shadowed snow with a few dried stems sticking out in a lumpy fluffy rock garden. Centre golden back-lit dry leaves of wild vetchling, some with caps of white snow stand out against blue shadowed snowy ground. Right sun shines thorugh a mat of fresh snow clinging to a spruce bough.

It's actually still Saturday here for #SixOnSaturday The #winter colour palette is limited but still rich and Saule/Sun shows her #sunset colours and plays with shadows in the handywork of #SnowMother and #LeafMother ! #skysky #pagansky 🌱🌿🌇 #Alberta #nature #landscape

photo collage in 6 aquarish panels, 3 across top, 3 on bottom. Framed in burnt orange in centre, blending out to light lavender blue top/bottom. Top left skeleton of a sturdy, low ornamental thistle, covered in fluffy snow, just a few prickly leaves sticking out. Centre a bright orange and gold sunset over dark blue mountains with lines of trees, snowy fields and fences in the shadowed fore and middle grounds. Right several pointed orange leaves hang from a thin horizontal branch, with little mounds of snow on the petioles and parts of the leaves, snowy background. Bottom left winter sun shines through gap halfway down in snow covered spruce trees, with blue sky behind. Centre a black cat is rapidly becoming white as thick fluffy flakes fall on his back as he chews dried grass hung from a wire fence. Right sky and snowy ground are blue-grey, broken by several bare poplar trees in silhouette, and a zone of broken cloud near the horizon showing some blue and subtle gold.

#SnowMother brought #Winter October 23 (snow, temperature drop) and it has stayed! still bits of colour to be found (tons of it in sunsets!) +the #seasonal #beauty of light, shadow and texture. #SixOnSaturday #nature #Alberta #garden #GetOutside #garden 🌱🌿 #c #pagansky #CrossQuarterDay 🐈⬛📷 #caturday

Several gently arched dark thin stems in a patch of sunlight bear pendant shield shaped leaves of red-orange, speckled dark in places. There are little mounds of snow some of the leaves/stems, and a number of other stems/grasses criss cross the image against a backdrop of softly blue shadowed snow

Slightly gold green textured leaves of a shrub rose catch a bit of sun between the snow that covers more of the leaves, and the shadowed snow behind.

Several clusters of many wiry dark stems bear drooping dark catkin like seed heads against little mounds of snow, some catching the sun, others in light blue shadow. Other kinds of seed heads, hold snow like little umbrellas, rise blurrily behind.

Thin stems bearing deep gold oval leaves, some with specks or patterns of green, protrude over fresh white snow

#FoliageFriday : #SnowMother shows no concern for the remaining work of #LeafMother , she is busy laying the #Winter cloak for #GreatMother ! still, colour remains after our first snow of the year, this week. #Autumn #garden 🌱 #pagan #witchsky #Alberta #Latvian #October