Elevation of US-, Ladoga, IN, USA

Backbone View down to Clifty Creek

In Indiana a wild creek is really really good, among ice and sun and high cliffs.

Rolling Stone Covered Bridge, Indiana.

Below Devil's Backbone

Reflected Colors

Ah Sugar Creek in west-central Indiana.

Rolling Stone Covered Bridge

General view of the show

"Hemlock at creekbank with sandstone cliff on opposite creekbank."

We still remember 340 to 348 mya.

Above Maidenhair

Pine Bluff Covered Bridge

People get excited about pictures of creekbanks lined with ice remnants on both sides.

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Cornstalk Covered Bridge Interior

Out in Indiana BRINGIN ICE DOWN THE CLIFFS of 348-to-340-million-year-ol' rocks.

To see the ice-lined creek "Clifty Creek" from up here.

In west-central Indiana the water that drips from the Mansfield sandstone has built up a wall of ice and fangs on the Borden siltstone and shale.

General view of the show

Queen Anne House (Ladoga, Indiana)

Queen Anne House (Ladoga, Indiana)

General view of the show

General view of the show(2)

View from Portland Mills bridge

General view of the show

View from Cornstalk bridge

View from Cornstalk bridge

Rolling Stone Covered Bridge

View from Cornstalk bridge

Rear View

Maidenhair Falls

Honeycomb Rock

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Polarizing Filter Photo Comparison

This is my yard and I am looking to hire somebody to rake these leaves.

Turkey Backbone

Honeycomb Rock

Won a February 2020 "Best of forests of west-central Indiana" prettiness award.

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At this little gorge we get a winter paradise!

Shades State Park (Montgomery County, Indiana)

Shades State Park (Montgomery County, Indiana)

Indiana beechleaves bleached of their color, obstinately marcescent even into late Feb.

See these FERNS' LIVES AT SANDSTONE in winter Indiana sun.

Sugar Creek (Montgomery County, Indiana)

Shades State Park (Montgomery County, Indiana)

February 22 jumble of hemlock & beech, living together as a plant community.

Shades State Park (Montgomery County, Indiana)

Scapula and Spider

Epigraph idea for a portfolio of pics: "I was trying to show people a temperate deciduous forest in winter in direct afternoon sun!"