Cohan Fulford

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No dating/ investing West Central Alberta, Canada; Artist: painter, writer+ photos + video+ vlogging. youtube.com/@CohanMagazine plant nerd +gardener. Locally/personally oriented animist, pagan, mystic https://ko-fi.com/cohanf https://paypal.me/cohanf

An old white guy- me- standing in a late summer wetland area with thigh high golding grass and sedges, with low bushy willows, one is behind me just more than shoulder height. Farther back we see some slightly taller willlows and farther still a mesic mixed woods in front of blue sky with a few bits of wispy white cloud. The image is framed in a dull gold and the colour repeats in text that crosses the image around my waist height: Blessed Māras! Great Mother Day
Close view of a small moth perching on a mid pink Yarrow flower cluster. The odd looking moth almost looks more like an oversized mosquito or a tiny artist made model airplane. It has very narrow (folded? not sure) wingsheld straight out to the sides just behind the head, a long narrow body, and very long spindly legs with a few spikes or hairs at the joints. It is off-white with a few indistinct goldy brown stripey blotches on the wings and small regular markings along the length of the body. It is perched on a flat head of many tinyflorets which are composed of even tinier unevenly oink ray flowers (like petals) around clusters of tiny disk flowers which look like little pale mounds with bits of yellow floral parts sticking out like little worms.
Same alt all photos. Several views of medium tall Iris with slim stems and narrow almost grassy leaves grows out of a tangle of knee-high or taller vegetation, between two small trees/large multi-stemmed shrubs with narrow trunks mostly bare several feet up. The flowers are typical Iris flowers with several downward hanging sepals (falls) and upright central petals (standards). This is a more or less natural species form so the flower parts are rather more simple and elegant compared to ruffly overblown hybrids. The flowers are a rich deep violet, near black in shadow and brighter where the sun shines through. In the closer shots we can see that the falls are decorated with deep gold lines that radiate out from the base/centre- this is the golden (chryso) writing/drawing (graphis) that the name of the plant refers to. In one of the shots we see a tiny bee flying away from the flowers.
A striking slim beetle, mostly (nearly?) black with striking yellow line markings- if you were looking down on its back, facing away from you, the two markings at the top of the wing cases (like, between the 'shoulders') look rather like the outlines of two large droopy/cup shaped eyes, and a single line farther down looks like a frowning mouth. The beetle is perched in the yellow centre of a white daisy flower head with dark shadowed vegetation behind and part of another daisy.
Same alt all photos. Several views from different angles of an insect on raspberry flowers, some showing more of the plant, others zoomed and cropped quite close. At first glance, you might think you were seeing a mid-sized bumble bee, with a chunky body covered in shortish mid-gold fuzz and black and white markings on its upper to mid 'back'. On closer look there are no wings showing at rest, and we can see that the markings are in fact typical beetle hard wing cases, black with white stripes. The beetle also has very long thin segmented (not bee-like) legs and interesting antennae tipped with a tiny three part end like a little hand or antler. In one view the wing cases are beginning to lift and separate, the wings would then come out for flight (we see just a hint of a blurred moving wing in one shot). The raspberry plant has buds and flowers over mid-green toothed and textured leaves. The flowers open with (a handful?) white petals-that I think fall off soon, leaving the greenish reflexed sepals around a mass of whitish stamens that mostly hide the central receptive parts.
A strikingly marked large pale yellow and black (Canadian Tiger Swallowtail) butterfly perches in a native tangle of honeysuckle foliage with gold to orange honeysuckle blossoms and and pale pink wild roses, feeding from the small narrow tubular honeysuckle flowers. the image is framed with a narrow border of mdedium golden yellow echoing the honeysuckle flowers surrounded by a wider border of medium pink taken from the roses. A paler version of the pink is used for text at the bottom in a casual script which reads Blessed Solstice!
Wetland area on my cousin's farm, just outside the acreage. Looking across a grassy open area dotted with small woody saplings etc, with a slightly larger bit near centre around an old birch stump. the open area is surrounded by low shrubby willows and dwarf birch, farther back in centre and farther still to right is taller mixed woods of spruce and poplar. Sun still lights the grassy area and the front of the trees while clouds moving in from behind are darkening the farther woods. A bit of blue sky can still be seen to upper right, but most of the sky is full of fluffy white through grey to dark clouds, darkest to the left just above the vegetation- the underside of the edge of a modest thunderstorm approaching.
An odd looking small fly is perched at the joint of two bright green leaflets, surrounded by more leaves. The fly is rather elongated, with legs splayed out flat, two in front, two behind and the final pair in the centre is pointed downward, holding on to the stem that joins the leaflets (another leaflet tips the step, upward from the fly.) The fly is black with large eyes (this marks it as male, for this type of fly) and short fine white hairs on the first pair of legs and the thorax. Wings are long and folded back over abdomen, light, translucent and slightly iridescent.
On a cloud dark late afternoon, a rain wet close view of a small bit of a rock garden with glacier smoothed stones- quartzite and granite- variably brown, pale, greyish and pinkish with a low alpine plant growing in clay-loam and gravel between the closely placed stones. The plant has velvety green not quite oval leaves with loosley toothed edges, short trailing stems tipped with clusters of small tubular violet flowers.
Same alt all shots. A really *tiny* wasp- for scale the unfolding poplar leaves in some of the shots are no larger than a (natural, trimmed) thumbnail. Depending on how the light hits it, it appears iridescent dark or all out metallic green with copper- very shiny! It is moving around on the tiny new leaves of a poplar sucker/sapling and at times on the stems. Finally it climbed to the tip of one of the stems, spread its wings and flew away.
Several shots, same position, the amount of zoom/crop varies. A nifty Mad Max looking fly- its head and thorax are a post apocalyptic greeny grey with random hairs sticking up; eyes are red-brown and some interesting hair tipped sturctures protrude from its 'snout' area. The wings begin gold and extend to the sides, smoky translucent. The abdomen is shiny black with the rear end a pale powdery cream, again with random hairs sticking up. It is perched on one of the shiny yet velvety bright green lobed palmate leaves of a gooseberry plant.
Same alt all pics, various poses, some closer and face on, some from above or sideways. A tiny bee, maybe looking a bit wet as it was just fished out of a bucket of water, moves around on various bits of dry grass and leaves in a natural mulch. The bee has black epidermis with bits of golden fuzz in places- a bit on its face, sides of head and especially sides of thorax and legs (probably underside but we don't see much of that). The abdomen has thin white stripes, and the long translucent slightly smoky amber wings are folded over the upper abdomen.
On an overcast day in a country setting with grass and trees just starting to turn green. An old white guy stands smiling at the camera- me- with glasses and short white goatee/moustache, a faced black cap, faded and holey black shirt, fake faded blue jeans (hey, they were cheap and only for outdoor work!) tucked into black foam/rubber boots (also full holes though you can't see here). I'm standing beside a smallish narrow garden bed which has many small poplar suckers that have been cut and stuck into the soil in kind of an elongated teepee shape, to support future hoped for pea growth. to the other side some more stakes support raspberry canes, behind is an orangey and faded plywood shed and farther back mixed spruce and poplar woods.
Caltha palustris Marsh Marigold. We always called them Cowslips, but that risks confusion with the European Primula that goes by that name! Several just emerged and not yet fully extended purple-green leaves embrace a cluster of new round green flower buds. The plant is growing in a patch of disturbed wetland soil, dark and peaty with scattered dry stems and grass on the surface.
A tiny black bee perches at the base of a small deep yellow species tulip flower. The bee is black with a bit of whitish fuzz in places, faint white stripes on the abdomen and a bit of iridesence on its nearly transparent wings.
On a sunny windowsill, cacti lean towards the light, we see the tops of a couple a no-name Weingartia and Mammillaria spinosissima 'Un Pico'. Behind to the right, slightly blurred, is a narrow short columnar cactus with medium green body slightly showing through fuzzy white areoles and a halo of long straight white spines. In front a little to the left is a more globular cactus, with shorter mostly erect golden brown spines over off-white fuzzy areoles and dull green body. It is capped with a cluster of 7 smallish bright yellow flowers which rise barely above the spines on funnel-like tubes crowned with many narrow petals which are recurved on this its second day flowering. The image has a golden border to match the flowers and the text Blessed May Day! appears in the same colour bold script font at the bottom.
same alt all pics A small long and slim wasp *not* of the yellowjacket/paper wasp sort. It has a shiny black body, long translucent iridescent wings held folded back over its body, long but not crazy long thin appendage at the back end- ovipositor? or is this male having a shorter structure? and long burnt orange legs. It is moving around in various positions on closed pussywillows (i.e. fuzzy, but no open flowers), we see it from above, the side, below and one where it is curving its (ovipositor?) in toward the pussywillow.
1 A handful of clusters of catkins dangle from shiny sticky red-brown bud cases on knobby grey twigs extending down into the view from upper left. Behind out of focus, we indistinctly see more branches with off-white overcast sky showing through.
A sunny snow covered slightly raised planting with a few dry stems showing through, including a dry Carlina thistle with prickly leaves and a flower head with dry bracts (false petals) to the right. More conspicuous than those stems are a number of small green spruce saplings, with variable caps and slowly collapsing coats of fresh snow. The background is smooth snow with a slight 'valley' between the planting and another slight mounded ridge to the right. A few blades of dry grass poke through the snow. In the background a blue linear shadow (from a power pole, I think) appears wavy on the uneven ground.
A small bird perches on a piece of branch on a blurred jumble of bits of wood, bark etc (byproducts of woodcutting, set aside for aesthetic, potential art material reasons), Its folded wings and tail are grey, slightly stripey looking. Underside is pale with a bit of reddish below the wing; top of head is dull dark brown spreading to 'back of neck'in a lighter more goldy brown; cheek/bottom of head area is whitish, with a light grey epaulette at the origin of the wing and a black bib. Its head is moving and so out of focus.
A tiny tomato soup orange-red with a few black dots lady beetle, like a half oval with the bottom nearly flat against the surface. It is on a large horizontal fallen tree (we just see a small patch) with the bark fallen off and surface faded grey. The wood surface is marked with the sinuous incised path of some other beetle/larva that lived under the bark some time ago when the tree was still vertical and bark intact.
A mid-sized shadowed apple tree trunk stands in front of a handful of rose stems with a few scattered dried leaves, flowers and hips and other dried flower stems. Behind that a bit of early evening sunlight hits a large clumpy mound of shovelled snow, roughly pyramidal like a mountain, and at least a couple of metres /6-7 feet high at the peak, and several times that width. Farther back we see part of a line of out of focus shadowed trees.
Looking from the moving vehicle across the roadside ditch on an overcast day with a light coating of fresh snow. In the centre, dark melt water follows the line of the ditch, looking like a canal or stream. On the other side is a fenced pasture or crop field with low golden grass/stubble poking through the snow and a narrow fenced driveway or oil lease access road. A line of bare grey poplars and a pool of melt water mark the far side of the field.
Looking from the moving car across the road to a farmstead under a sky mostly filled with low cloud with bits of blue showing. We see part of a faded low bungalow to the left with bare frosted trees behind and mid size frosted shrubs and a couple of large dark spruce trees near centre. To the right some grey horizontal board fences, more bare trees including some near/dead poplars and a row of non-native willows with orangey branches showing through the frost and a bit of a barn showing in the background.
View across a slightly foggy wintry looking wetland area with tall dry grass punctuated by clumps and bits of low reddish willow bushes, the ground irregularly white with patches of snow. Farther back and to the right, large shrubby willows form a solid mass, with scattered small spruce and in the centre reddish twigged white trunked birch rise above. Behind that is mixed wood of bare poplars and large spruce, faded by the fog. The text 'Blessed Spring Equinox" appears across in the image in a muted dark pink script.
From the car looking across a lightly snow-covered pasture with lots of low dry grass showing through. with several low hills and dips between. A couple of wire and post fences cross from left to right in the middle distance. Farther still we can see mixed woods, nearly silhouetted against the blue of the foothills and mountains in the distance. Although a bit of sun is reaching the pasture, the sky above the mountains is mostly cloudy with some smoothly overcast bands and areas of more active looking cumulus clouds from near white to mid blue-grey.
Looking across a snow covered pasture with clumps of partly grazed brown grass showing through. Halfway across the image is crossed by a couple of wire and post fencelines which have taller dry grass near them. Behind those are a handful of smallish dark spruce trees, beyond that is blowing snow, a white-out near the ground and still visible quite high, half obscuring the stand of mixed woods farther back. Sky is overcast, barely distinguishable from the snow.
Looking from the moving car across a snowy wetland area with partially grazed clumps and patches of dry golden grass protruding through the snow, with flat white areas here and there. A few small reddish shrubby bare willows poke up becoming a solid mass of them to the left and then again in several areas much farther back. Behind the willows are much taller bare poplars, not too far on the left, angling farther away to the right.The sky is blue but there is a faint whitish smoke haze low down.
A single small bird perches on the thin stems of a low shrubby willow against the blurred backdrop of a snowy wetland. Its belly is toward us so we see mostly the underside which is whitish in centre with buff sides, the light grey underside of the tail and a distinct black cap and black throat like two triangles that meet at the tips where the beak is, white triangles extending out across the cheeks between the two black patches. It has a small pointy black bill and a laser focussed black eye.
The low dry stem of an alpine thistle sticks up through smooth snow, its dry flower head covered in a little mound of powdery snow. The afternoon sun is low coming from the left and the thistle casts funny spikey blue shadows. Behind this stem, several thin woody branches - some native shrub that has sown itself into the garden bed- are mostly in blue shadow.
A small log lies on the forest floor, almost completely covered with moss- in places an inch or two/several centimetres deep with fine fronds showing, in other spots flatter patches work to cover new areas. Several patches of silver-blue lichen stand out on the green moss. The log is surrounded by faded dry leaves with occasional twigs and bits of larger branches. Most of the view is in shadow, but a shaft of light reaches the middle of the log, making the green almost glow and also lighting several arching stems of dry palest gold grass in front of and also draping over the log.
Looking over a snowy field with ploughed clods showing through. Almost halfway across a farmyard stretches across with buildings and rows of hay bales sitting among trees. Beyond the land drops and we seemore snowy fields before the forest begins that stretches all the way to the foothills which rise blue and hazy with ribbons of fog or smoke. These give way to mountains that rise jagged and snowcapped, still catching a little post-sunrise glow, with rolling clouds just above them. Higher up the sky is lightly overcast with ribbons and wisps and strips of blue here and there.
Pastel frosted morning post sunrise. Looking over a wire and post fence to a snowy pasture, the snow broken by numerous low shrubs- willows and dwarf birch, probably, cattle browsed. Farther back the low mounded willows rise to several metres, with larger (but not large) birch, behind them taller poplars and spruce. Everything is lightly frost coated, making ground, woods and sky all blend in shades of silvery grey with blue hints and a slight remnant hint of sunrise.
Looking across a darkish dawn road in a semi-industrial/service area. The road is half dark with strips of remnant snow/ice/slush mixed with sand. On the other side across a snowy strip is a moderately large commercial building with a narrow warehouse looking rear part and a front area looking rather house-like. A couple of power poles rise from the snow, and there are several vehicles parked in front of the business. Farther on the road curves to the right and we see a few other buildings, whitish and blending with the shadowed snow. Farther still a ling of dark spruce is just visible against the gold of the lower part of the sky, with the brighter gold of the rising sun just visible behind the closer building. Higher up is a band of cloud angling slightly upward to the left across the sky, orangey gold edged grey giving way to darker slightly violet grey then fainter lighter wisps in the upper blue sky.
Looking through a rather dense growth of smallish poplars (probably some willows and Amelanchier in there too), we see just the trunks and some branches, silhouetted agains the sky behind. The setting sun is a small glowing amber ball just above centre right, burning through some small branches and highlighting the edges of others.The top third of the background is orangey sky, below that a blur of distant blue mountains, below that a dark band of pasture/fence and then snowy ground with dried grass.
Frosted but still dark, a handful of spruce boughs dangle into each side of the image, mainly in the upper part. They belong to fairly large trees. Loosely framed by those shaded boughs, we see the upper parts of several poplar trees (mainly 2 in centre, with less of another, lower/farther back, to the right). They are so heavily frosted that you might almost think they had silver-white foliage, and are catching the late afternoon winter sun with a hint of gold. In places the grey-green trunks and near black branches show through, giving more emphasis to the silvery filigree. The sky behind is bluish, covered with thin fluffy clouds that seem not to be very far away.
View of the top of a plant that has several sprays of tiny yellow flowers that all together make a yellowmass of bloom. Several pollinators can be seen on the flowers- a grey-brownish moth at mid right (it has bright colours underneath, but we don't see it in this view); a cpuple of smallish stripey looking flower flies, not quite in focus, are farther up/back on the flowers.
short video looking at frosty trees on the acreage. The sky was mostly clear blue with sun coming through the trees at times.
A partly sunlit goldy green spruce branch reaches into the image from the right, against other blurred branches more sunlit gold against a backdrop of mostly lavendery shaded snowy woodland. The spruce needles shine where the sun hits them, holding a few bits of snow and some tiny circles of light where the camera lens has translated background glimmers. In the blurred background, several branches, twigs, saplings appear faintly against the snow along with several large tree trunks. The trunks are near silhouettes and appear as dark voids- almost like doorways, with muted shafts of sunlight touching the snow between them.
A single dry stem of an herbaceous native wild pea vine (Lathyrus ochroleucus) stands in a bit of sun against a blue-violet and whitish partly shadowed snowy background. One compound leaf with a handful of dry leaflets extends to the left. The leaflets are backlit pale gold, papery and crumpled a bit on places, with tiny marks and holes on the surface. Some smaller leaflets cling next to the upright stem, with even a small tendril preserved. The blurred background holds several round edged pale masses- clumps of snow looking like mounds of cotton batting, near white in the centres, blending to violet-blue in the shadows between. The camera lens has turned a number of glimmers of light into bright or faint circles in the background, and a few bits of reddish brown foliage fade into the shadows. A mid-pale violet plucked from the filter enhanced shadows forms a thin border and a lighter shade is used for the words Happy Holidays in a casual script font in lower left.
Two landscape orientation photos have been put together, one on top of the other. The lower image is nearly abstract-a line of snow drift crosses left to right in a roadside ditch- flat on top coming to a sharp line in the centre then sloping gently down. Bits of short grass show through the snow on top and trees across the road cast vague blue shadows on the drift. The top image shows another roadside ditch. The blue shadow of the road to the left reaches the middle of the ditch, then a snowy bank rises with a complex pattern of drifts reaching from the flattish top along wavy, sharp, narrowing ridges, down to meet the shadow at the ditch's lowest point. The waves and ridges catch light and shadow from pure white to deep blue. Above the drifts is a wire and post fence backed by darkish dry grass/weeds then a lightly snowed crop field and farther still varied wintry wooded areas- a line that follows a property line with some nearly orange willows and scattered grey poplars. Farther back is native mixed woods. There is a border of a slightly faded orangey red, and lettering in a lighter version of the same colour says Have a Beautiful Winter.
A single stem of a wild aster with dry red-brown leaves clinging to the stem and a poof of seed heads- some bare and starry, some still dressed in light fluffy seeds, and the whole broad cluster carries a bit of powder snow on the centre top. The background is snow, the lower half in sun with slight granular blue shadows, the top in dark blue shade- accentuating the duality of Solstice: light and dark. The edges are blurred and a white vignette applied to emphasize the brightening that follows the Winter Solstice. A pale gold colour has been picked up from the seed heads and used for a thin border around the image, and lettering that says Happy Solstice in loose script font.
Looking through an open woodland edge toward the sunset across an open pasture. We see a the trunks of a number of tall poplar trees, a couple of tall narow spruce with branches only up high, mostly out of sight, various small poplars and a couple of spruce and a bit denser growth off the right. We don't see the horizon clearly, but we can see a good part of the sky, which has areas of blue along with bands of cloud and some wispier bits- some of the cloud is blue-grey, but areas and the lighter higher bits catch pinky-golden light from the setting sun which is out of sight behind clouds on the horizon. Black vignette has been applied to the corners to emphasize the shadows of the approaching solstice.
A slightly zoomed view looking across the way into a pasture. It is snowing heavily and windy at the moment of the photo, and the zoom increases the effect. We see a very small shed with whitish walls and a snow covered peaked roof and is closely surrounded by a wire and post fence which has kept some tallish dry grass/weeds out of reach of summer cattle. A few metres farther out is another fence, with a couple of dark posts prominent in the mid-ground. Snowy ground (with a few bits of dry grass showing) and snow-filled sky are nearly indistinguishable. A slight film filter giving a faint violet hint has been applied, and edges are blurred and a white vignette effect used.
Head and shoulders view of an old white guy-me- standing outside in a snowstorm. My mouth is slightly upturned on one side- the closest I will get to a smile while I'm standing alone with a camera... I'm wearing a faded black hoody, hood up, and a faux wool hat with ear flaps underneath it. The coat is not fully zipped up and you can see another black sweater-like zipped .jacket and a bit of a light coloured shirt collar. Coat and hat are liberally dusted with small flakes of cold dry snow. The background is an overexposed view of spruce trees and bare poplars somewhat whited out by heavy falling snow. A slight filter has been applied giving a faint violet tint to clothing and background (not the face) and edges blurred and a white vignette applied. The words 'Have a Beautiful Season' in a pale violet script appear on the top of the image.
a short video of me talking about a fallen tree I have to cut, showing the setting then talking about and showing some Ruffed Grouse that were nearby.
Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus A roughly chicken shaped bird, maybe half the size of a moderate sized chicken (less?). It is perched on a low bit of mossy stump no more than a couple of inches/handful of cm high. The bird faces away from us, but has turned its head halfway so we see its face in profile. It has a crest on the top of its head, but only slightly lifted. Its plumage is a vibrant and complexly patterned mix of dots and bands and splashes of reddish, greyish and dark browns, white and near/black. The background is a mostly shaded area below trees with faded fallen leaves and twigs in grey and brown. A bit of film filter has been applied to enhance constrast and add a faint violet atmospheric effect. The edges have been blurred and a white vignette applied.
Looking out the passenger side of the moving car. An area of cropped coarse clumpy golden grass in snow gives way to a smoother snowy field with an open patch of coarse dark low remnants of?- cropped thistle? then more smooth snow a fence of white horizontal boards on posts in front of a barn. The barn is strong red, rather freshly painted, with white trim and snowy roof. A largish spruce tree to the left partly obscures a whitish metal machine shed (or similar) behind, and we also see a round metal granary, tall metal fuel storage tanks, small red sheds and a line of bare poplars in the background. The sky is blue-grey cloud. A couple of film effects have been applied, giving a faint violet tone, also a warmer zone in the middle of the image, and the edges have been blurred and a white vignette applied.
Close view of a small plant on the forest floor (Maianthemum canadense Canada Mayflower). Several papery dry pinky gold spear tip shaped leaves clasp a single short stem. The leaves have many fine veins running lengthwise, giving them an almost pleated appearance. The stem is pale gold, tipped with a number of tiny spikes that would have held flowers in spring, which were not fertilised. The small handful that were pollinated have now produced shiny bright red juicy berries (which are edible- very sweet, but also bitter a fun nibble, probably wouldn't be a great idea to eat too many). The background is a blur of dried leaves, spruce cones and scales and one autumn gold leaf. A faint violet film effect has been used and edges are blurred with a white vignette applied.
Looking across a snowy pasture, only the foreground (except edge) is sharp, the farther away we move in the scene the more snow blurred it becomes, with sky and snowy ground similarly dusky white and the distant trees faded to light grey. The pasture is marked with clumps and patches and lines of dried grass, forbs and saplings that stick up through the snow, mid-way across is a sparse stand of bare poplars, no more than a dozen smallish trees. Farther back, more snow and dusk dimmed pasture and stands of wintry trees. A filter has been applied which increases contrast a bit, adding a faint tint of violet, and a blur and white vignette has been applied to edges.
Looking up at fluffy white clouds with some gaps of blue sky between. In the lower centre we see the top of large spruce tree intergrown with a poplar tree, winterbare and mostly silhouetted against the light sky. The image has a slight violet effect and the edges have been blurred and a white vignette applied.
A grey-brown squirrel with a reddish hint on its back and reddish fluffy tail (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus American Red Squirrel) sits on a small bit of stump dusted with snow and littered with the spruce scales left from its meals of spruce seeds. On either side of its perch large tree trunks rise- a spruce to left and poplar to right. Behind the squirrel is out of focus forest floor, snow covered with saplings and bits of dry red-brown vegetation protruding. There's a faint violet tint applied and the edges are blurred with a black vignette applied to accentuate the shadows of the season even as snow and frost whiten everything.
Dusk lighting has been slightly enhanced with a faint violet tint. A single grass stem arcs gently from lower right to mid left, the seeds dangling and echoing the arc. Only hints of the dry grass show through, it is almost completely coated in short grainy frost crystals. The background is a blur of snow and more grass with some dark shadows. The edges have been blurred further and a black vignette effect applied to accentuate the setting sun.
A shaft of sunlight makes its way through the trees above and lights a violet plant on the forest floor. In the centre of the image is a single aymmetrical mostly white (barely pink tone) flower. There are two upper petals pointing to the upper left corner, one points out to each side, and a single larger one at the bottom angled to the lower right corner which has red-violet guidelines leading pollinators to the golden centre of the flower. The flower sits at the top of a stem above a couple of reduced elongated heart shaped leaves and a single large one points to the upper left. The background is shadowed foliage, with the edges darkened and blurred to enhance the already dark shadows, while the green -gold of leaves has been intensified emphasising the idea that the height of summer still holds darkness even while Sun is at peak.
Zoomed view looking from the moving car across a glimpse of snowy ditch bordered by a wire and post fence, then a snowy harvested grain field with low golden straw stubble showing through. On the other side a not very deep line of bare poplar trees follows a fence-line from left to right across the image. Further still we get slight glimpses of other fields, other stands of mixed woods with a few dark spruce, then the land slopes down away into the distance with forest that stretches to the blue foothills in the distance. Beyond those we see a little of the snow topped mountains, with a foggy overcast partly obscuring the peaks. The edges of the image are blurred and a white vignette effect has been applied.
Looking out the side window of the moving vehicle, across a snowy pasture with bits of dry grass showing through in places. Less than halfway across is a dark post and wire fence then another white stretch. On the other side we can just see another fence at the edge of a dense mixed wood of bare poplars and spruce. The trees are variably covered in frost (from ice fog) and snow with dark boughs showing through in places and some dark shadows between the trees, but the overall effect, especially the front trees, is of white trees. The sky is a soft blue and a white vignette effect has been applied to the edges of the image.
Looking up at several trees- an aspencomes from lower right and angles up into the centre with a pale trunk with black markings where branches emerge or once did; at the top it has a tangle of bare branches and fine twigs, outlined against the featureless whitish sky. To the right we see part of another poplar, smaller and dead with no fine twigs. Behind and to the left, not reaching as high as the aspen, we see the upper 2/3 of a large spruce tree, dark but frost lightened. I've applied some 'light leak' filters which have added random faint blobs and zones of colour, some reddish some blue-green-which kind of hint at holiday lights. The corners have a dark vignette effect applied.