The holiday season has come and gone, the calendar has turned over to a new year, and much of the Midwest is blanketed in snow. On these long winter ... in fact scenes of nature can also produce ...

2025 – It’s easy to lose sight of nature in winter, amid the rush to escape cold ... eating frozen mountain berries. How pretty the snow looks. How the moon looks at night.” ...

This came on our largely snowless scene. Some critters that depend on snow cover suffered ... owls from the far north that come here for the winter. Some years when food is scarce in the north ...