We had a little bit more snow yesterday night, but it got so warm in the morning that most of it thawed again. I managed to get a few long-exposure shots before it was mostly gone, though – it’s great how much even a bridge camera can pick up at night. This one’s a bit hazy because it was actually snowing heavily when I took it!

Flash Sunflower portrait from August as an antidote for the cold weather :-).

This could possibly be my last moon photo of the year, depending on how the weather plays along tomorrow… but given that it wasn’t completely dark yet, this is a surprisingly good try. Stacked from 20 images with RegiStax as usual, with a little bit of wavelet sharpening and a high-pass filter applied, although this time, I left the brightness and contrast like they came out of the camera.

Let’s call this the final Cactus Flower photo of the year, because the final blossom of the last batch is closing today – this photo is from yesterday and I thought it would be great to close with a different look. But as I said before, there are a couple of additional photos I have not posted in the Gallery and the Google+ album, although I may show some of these at a later time separately.

More of the little Amaryllis, sporting two blossoms shortly before Christmas.

Back to the red roses once more, because… why not?

The weather report was a little too enthusiastic with yesterday’s prediction – there was only a very light dusting of snow and most of that had melted by evening, but then it got very windy and beastly cold with -5.5°C during the night. This is still a shot from yesterday, of course.

Yes, it’s just the school on the other side of the street, but dusted with a fine layer of snow on the roof – a sight we haven’t had since a long time. Unfortunately there was not so much snow today and now it has stopped snowing, but it was enough to take a few pictures including this one.

The third Amaryllis, with a stem only half as high as the others, but looking even more interesting.

Another cactusflower from yesterday – only one of them is still in full bloom. I think I will post the last photo of the series tomorrow and then take a break – the unposted ones I’ll show later sometime!