TEXTURES AND PATTERNS FROM THE EARLY MORNING SNOW DUCKS I left the house before

I left the house before 5:am and after photographing the wildflowers for a couple hours

I thought it would be another beautiful and colorful sunrise so

A winter scene of Icicles dangle beneath frozen crab apples after a freezing rain storm passes through the night before in Northern Illinois at Wildflower Park

While watching this pair

I knew where in the preserve I wanted to go to photograph the wildflowers because

TEXTURES AND PATTERNS FROM THE EARLY MORNING SNOW DUCKS I left the house beforeThis January winter morning sunrise brought some incredible lighting of cool and soft looking colors around these elderberry bushes along the South Fork Kishwaukee River in Northern Illinois. I like how the soft lighting brings out the textures of the patterns in the snow beneath the elderberry bushes. The temperature was an incredible 28F. (529 38)