Train Trip Back Across the Country

The months of the year, from January to June, are a geometric progression in the abundance of distractions....January observation can be almost as simple and peaceful as snow, and almost as continuous as cold. There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why. ~Aldo Leopold

Macro photograph of snowflakes at a station stop in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Near white-out conditions in North Dakota

Snow-covered hay bales in eastern Montana

Sunset in central Montana

Misty morning in the Columbia River Gorge, looking from Washington to Oregon