Sunday, November 12, 2017

Winter comes to Mt. St. Helens
























In 2017 the seasons seemed to fade into one another - winter flowed gradually into spring, spring merged slowly with brilliant summer sun, summer melted into the crisper autumn season. However, last week, fall was violently deposed by old man winter with a hammer blow of snow and ice.





Sun now, snow later!

The last of the fall colors contrast with the first snows of winter.











Morning sun cutting through the storm to illuminate the first snows of winter.

Colors of fall, ice of winter, reflected perfectly in Coldwater Lake.





Castle Lake Peaks
Elk cresting the ridge.


Part 2: Mt. St. Helens dons the icy shroud of winter.