As usual, Diana and Irene have beautiful Christmas decorations to lighten up our lives on long winter nights:

New addition this year:  Comfort station on the right for S.C.:

Little creek from Grundy Lake to Portage Lake at Hwy 522:

Road down to Portage Lake at the mail boxes …

Hwy 522:

Looking West from Young’s Road …

Balsam Creek Road …

Back on Hwy 522 …

Hallie’s place … with …

… two wild turkeys at the end of the snowmobile tracks (as seen through the hand-held Panasonic – Leica 100-400 mm telephoto lens at 800 mm equivalent focal length … and cropped):

More snow forecast for the next few days, making the critters and the photog happy.