Ethereal Back Road Beauty...

Sometimes, the shot straight out of the camera is the best...not very often, but sometimes.

Sometimes, those trees in the ditches work perfectly as your frame for a shot that you cannot wait to get home to look and see how it turned out; if it's going to be as beautiful as it looked...

Just an unplanned, stray tree, born of a bounced and buried acorn, that is one of the most beautiful sculptures ever, when it's naked, cold, and frosty with the sun willing to be the back lighting to accent its finest features.

Today's morning was a magical, ethereal place, one that when I saw it, I knew I had to grab my camera and go out and drive some of the back roads around here and shoot...

What's the magic? Well, the fog hung low, crystals had formed on all of creation, making everything beautiful, even the ugly ordinary weeds.

The sun was big, climbing the morning sky, and with all its powerful might, it was working very hard to get through that fog...but oh, the few minutes I was able to capture the filtered morning light was precious and I wished it would go on and on.

I took no more than ten minutes and this is what I got for you...I hope you like it, a special gift from mother nature to you, captured in a tiny little way, by me....your bumbling roadside shooter.

I know you'll appreciate the soft yolk of the sun here, reflecting off the railroad tracks.

And an old barn...just because I love them so much and I know that you do, too.

So do you have a favorite?