Winter at Mingus Park

Let's take a walk through Mingus Park in the winter & see what we can see. Remember when these trees has yellow leaves on them? Now they are bare red branches. Look at how big our baby American Coots have gotten! They have such sweet faces.

During the winter the wood ducks hang out at the park. This male has particularly pretty green stripes on his head.

And of course we have the Mallards, but they are here year round. However, I think we get extras during the winter months.

But, the trees are just dormant, not dead. Look there's buds on the end of this branch.

These poor pussywillows are all wet after the heavy rainfall last night.

And check out the moss carpet growing under this tree! It's very soft, you could nap comfortably here...if it weren't cold & wet.

These vines are bare now, but soon enough they'll have leaves & then flowers on them again.

Doesn't this look just like a fairy bower? You could almost imagine them living among the ferns and moss growing on this old tree.

Well, this year Michelle is over winter & ready for spring. I don't think that nature is ready for spring quite yet though.