Lack of snow has been the talk this month. Plenty wet enough, but one doesn't expect muddy trails in January. Lots of water going over the falls.

It was a lovely sunny winter day to be outside. The animal traffic out at the Mable Reynolds Nature area was abundant. The 3-4 inches of snow provided just the right palette for recording their wanderings through the area.

We went for a very icy walk along the Bob Sykes trail up the side of the hill yesterday. The rain earlier this week had turned into solid ice in places and crunchy ice in other places.

A very snowy gully at Guppy Farm.

This shot is from our walk on Sunday. A great day to be outside. We went up the red trail at the O'Loughlin property and speculated about all of the stonewalls on the face of the hill.

The weak sun shone as we walked up the red trail on the O'Loughlin property. We saw these tracks in the snow.

We walked through the Guppy Farm today. The falls were crashing down. The trails were a tad muddy. Winter will come. White snow clinging to the moss on downed trees gave some color to the forest floor.