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Nice simplicity.

Thanks Chris. Much appreciated.

Stan, I was fortunate enough to encounter this image in the Editor's Picks section; congratulations. The simplicity the image presents is somewhat illusory, since its paucity of information prompts the viewer to contemplate possible story lines. The field is wide open, so to speak.

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Thank you too Michael. To be honest I hadn't realised that this was an editor's pick before your comment. To explain a little about the image, my village was cut off by snow for several days and so I amused myself by going out into the fields and lanes with my camera. This photo was taken at the furthest point of one of these jaunts as I turned for home, and is at a spot that is interesting in summer because it is at the top of the hill. Just over the brow of the hill is a crossroads and then there was an abandoned car stuck in a 3 ft drift. Somebody had tried to get home to the village on the back road and got stuck there too. It took a local farmer to clear the drifts off the main road with his farm equipment, but that took five days.

I appreciate the explanation, Stan. The other image clearly describes the impact of this snowfall. While I was attending university in Buffalo, New York, I was living with an uncle in his 2 story home. After a severe blizzard, there was a snowdrift up to the sill of the window in his bedroom, which is on the 2nd floor. Since subsequently moving to southern Florida, seeing snow has been a rare and, I might say, privileged, occasion.

Thanks Michael. Even here in Scotland we don't see as much snow as we used to. This was the first serious snow here on the East Coast for several years, although about seven years ago we did have a long cold spell. I once had a much older colleague who could not get home from work for a few weeks back in 1947. He described how he eventually walked the five miles home through the drifts hanging on to the overhead telephone wires for balance. Sadly it seems that global warming is not a myth.