White Rocks Overlook along the Appalachian Trail, South Mountain State Park / Recreation Area. December, 2009

A non-snowy version of the previous photo.

Indian Springs Wildlife Management Area.

The Potomac River, photographed from the C&O Canal National Historical Park, upstream from Harpers Ferry.

It is never too cold to fish.

Walking the Appalachian Trail in Winter can be a snowy endeavor,

A conservation planting adjacent to the South Mountain State Park / Recreation Area.

A view of a snowy field from under a sheltering white pine tree.

Decorative items collected on a winter walk.

Geese below Dam No, 5 on the Potomac River, C&O Canal National Historical Park.

The forest floor, carpeted by a species of Lycopodium, a genus of clubmosses, also know as ground pines and creeping cedars.

Mosses often look festive - and very green - in winter.

A mountain laurel shrub during an icing storm.

A snow capped boulder in South Mountain State Park / Recreation Area.

Early settlement site, now abandoned. Top left is a small cabin with fireplace, smoke house (right) and spring house (bottom left).

A black walnut canopy against the winter sky.

From the forest, the winter sky.

Looking up - a pitch pine.

Red maple tree, a registered Big Tree, located along the towpath in C&O Canal National Historical Park, near Dam #3.

A small intermittent .stream