DSCN2571a, originally uploaded by Ali Crehan.

… I should subtitle this photo “Jail break” because I escaped the house today. 😉

It was fiercely cold and all the colors were crisp and clear. The white pines remain devoutly green while everything else around them crumbles into dry leaves and cracking branches – everything but the red berries at the forest’s perimeter.

“November comes
And November goes,
With the last red berries
And the first white snows.”
~ Elizabeth Coatsworth