For two days it has been icy-cold and snowing. It's not the big, soft flakes yet, but enough to cover everything and bring out the maintenance trucks with the salt for the road. This afternoon the sun came out for an hour, and I took off with my camera. Come and enjoy the walk with me! You will meet some old acquaintances in new garb!
Rosebud 
Yellow rosebud 
When there is snow on the ground and sun shining on it, the light takes on a special quality that makes all colors more luminous!
Daphne 
Lanterns 
Fall leaves 
Remember the purple berries?
Fall color meets snow!
This Virginia Creeper lost all its leaves weeks ago, but the birds haven't finished with it yet!
Heather
Flower growing at the top of a tall, bare stalk. All the other blossoms and the leaves are long since gone, but sometimes it pays to be tenacious!
Fuchsias 
and some different ones
Hazel, with the catkins all ready to bloom in late January!
Another rose... this one is wearing a hood!
Calendula
and another one
Green field powdered with snow. This was a wheat field before. 
Close-up: 
And now the embankment on the other side! 
This was a potato field. Now it is plowed over.
Field up close. Notice the tiny green shoot! 
Not so long ago I showed you this bush full of bees! 
Multi-colored leaves in the snow.
Green and red on the same bush together. 
These berries are only good for birds! 
So are these! 
You have met this cat before. He is always prowling around the neighborhood. Today he is cold, trying to warm up a little! Notice the tail! Sweeping back and forth!
Pansy in the snow. It looks as though it is giving off a tiny bit of heat, causing the snow right next to it to melt a little! 
One more rose... 
By now it was snowing again - no more sunshine! Time to go home!
Can you see the snowflakes? 
If you read my very first essay
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977099859
you have already seen some of this before, in late summer. Thank you for coming with me again as fall makes way for winter!
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Comments: 36
Great photo essay!
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much for sharing this with us!
What will happen to those beautiful flowers.
I will come again see all the flowers one by one.
Thanks
Victoria, I am honored - again!
Your photos are spectacular. I love each one of them. Excellent job! 10++++++++++++
I loved seeing the Daphne and Fuchsias and have never seen Virginia Creeper before.
the snow makes things look so different
but beautiful in its own way... thank you ... where do you live??
Blessings to all...
Blessings
Beautiful essay and such beauty finding its way through your lens.. Hope finds a way to bloom...under all circumstances.
Thank you Wiaka, glad you enjoyed it!
Julya, glad you stopped by!
Thanks for sharing your walk with us via your camera :)
Maria, schön, dass du vorbei geschaut hast!
Thank you Liz for coming with me on my walk!