This is the first picture of the year! I decided to take Hans for a short walk on the leash (I'll be sure to post a picture of this at some point!) and took the camera with me. We had an unusual warm spell in Southern Michigan that melted all the snow that was still on the ground. But today it was already turning colder again. That's the main reason the walk was a short one! This is a shot of our Winter trees and the sky behind them. They are wonderful even though they cause a lot of what I call "tree-crap"-leaves, branches etc...to rain down on our modest yard at an alarming rate...it's sort of impossible to keep up! But they are beautiful.