My wife was gracious enough to let me just take off in the truck after Saturday morning’s circus adventure with the little guys. It was nap time for the rest of them, and 4×4 time for me and my cameras. 185 miles and several hours later, I found myself with a bunch of pretty cool images, an ice-encrusted truck, and a mission to investigate purchasing a set of snowshoes.

This is the first photo I wanted to post in this series, from beside a highway between Mercer and Wilton. As an information and communications junkie, I’m drawn to these old telephone poles that have long been out of service. Even better is one like this, with loose wires still attached…and modern wind turbines to boot! They may be an expensive and unreliable source of energy, but sometimes they can be photogenic.

As the title of this post indicates, I found a lot of interesting stuff poking out of the snow during my travels. You can expect those to slowly trickle in here on the ol’ Blog.