Winter colours: red, russet and grey

With the landscape muted by ice and snow, the odd spark of colour becomes extra vivid and welcome. Here are some that I have enjoyed in the past few days. The textures, I think, are vivid too: the softness of feathers, the smooth shiny rosehips, the powdery ice crystals, the knobbly, spiky tree trunk. Noticing colour and texture makes me happy. I hope you like these too.

dog rosehips in fresh snow

ice crystals on the walls of the castle

a plantation of larches turns russet in the sunrise

the whiskery bole of an old lime tree

pheasant plumage

a cobweb of fresh snow crystals

See also: Finding colour in a monochrome landscape

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