Snow Play

We enjoyed the figid weekend in Steamboat Springs - snowshoeing, hot springs, sledding, and good friends. Check out this awesome video of our friend Sally on the sledding ramp we built (perhaps a little too high)...

Here's a couple other images from the weekend:

 Snowshoeing in Steamboat Springs

 rural protest (Steamboat Springs, CO)

Me tubing over my friend Matt - then eating a lot of snow

New Year - New Photos

We took these photos in Moab, Utah where it was much snowier than we expected but really beautiful an a other-worldly way.

Our road out of Moab looked like this:

We saw this bald eagle off of I-70 near (appropriately) Eagle, Colorado

Through the Frost

Photos by Lorna Cochrane through the frost on our windows.

Photo of the Day

Lorna took this beautiful photo last weekend which means new desktop wallpaper for you.

Indiana Winter Landscapes

Photos by Lorna Cochrane and/or Ben Abels Copyright 2007.

These photos weren't actually taken by me - but I like to think that I acted as art director. My hands were glued to the wheel while driving down Interstate 69 towards Indianapolis under very gusty winds. I'm glad I insisted on the other passengers using my camera to snap some photos of the landscape around us. Although the overcast winters of Indiana become tiresome after awhile, there is a strange beauty to the landscape. It almost looks like a black and white movie or as if I had altered the appearance of these photos, but I assure you that these came directly off the camera and straight onto the blog. Those of you in Indiana or from there will know and perhaps miss these surroundings. The Indiana landscape has a sense of mystery this time of year - I've forgotton how much I love it. There are a few more photos on my flickr site - but these are the best ones. I think it is time for you to change your computer background again and these photos would be perfect.

Snow-inspired Post

We're supposed to get 3-6" today. Here's some images to add some aesthetic to the whiteness.


"Snowy City" stencil art by JMJ
"Little Tree" by Stark
"New Tree" by Stark
"A Tree Falls" by Stark


from Ryan Helsel's Durham City Photography Project 1.1
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