Minnesota Winter
Beautiful and glorious, bracing and bitter,
Bright like the sun glancing off a million whirling mirrors,
Dull days of endless dimming, blending all together.
White, gray, brown, black, white again,
Crunchy, crusty, slippery, slushy,
Snowballs, snowmen, snow drifts,
Shovels, plows, ice picks,
Skates,skis, snowmobiles,
Cars spinning, swerving, weaving, ditch-bound.
All things dead, silent, resting, waiting.
And then, a crocus.
I did, in fact, go for a short walk on this beautiful, bitter cold day. But I didn’t want to bring my camera – too cold – so I took some photos in our back yard using a bright red jingle bell for contrast with the balsam fir (the much photographed balsam fir!). I used both of my lenses to see which would get the best shot. See what you think.
The first two were taken with the 18-55mm lens and the second two with the 70-300. I like the way the background is blurred with the second lens, but I also like the background in view in the first two photos. And then this happened:
Not sure what happened there, but I like it!
I’ll probably delete this in the morning.
Lynniebeemuseoday 
Camera malfunction? Operating temps of Nikon cameras only go down to 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
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I wonder… That seems like a good theory. It wasn’t the last photo I took, though, so I thought maybe I had accidentally pressed the shutter button when it was out of focus.
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That’s more like it. I assumed the blurry one was your last photo.
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