Can you believe this?
We woke up at Little House in the Rockies on May 20 to six inches of snow.
Six inches.
In late May.
At 10,000 feet, Mother Nature is clearly not interested in what the calendar says. The aspens were just leafing out in that tender spring green, and suddenly they were holding fresh snow like it was the most natural thing in the world.
It was stunning.
And then Colorado changed its mind.
By later that same day, the sun was blazing, the sky was blue, and most of the snow had melted away as if it had never happened. Instead of snow, the trees were highlighted by a backdrop of fluffy white clouds, this time captured with my iPhone.
Winter at breakfast, spring by afternoon.
I took the snowy aspen photos with my new Ricoh GR III camera, which I bought after tons of research. I’m still learning how to use it, but it has already earned its keep. Fleeting moments like spring-green aspens unexpectedly dressed in snow are exactly why I wanted a very small, high-quality camera that would be easy to carry on trips. I love my Nikon DSLR and the images I can capture with it, but it is big and cumbersome. It’s much easier to be in the moment with a small camera, and this one is exactly right for me.
And it was just right for those snow pics.
Check out the hummingbird silouette I caught through the glass door.
Mother Nature’s magic once more.
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