A WINTER SUNRISE FROM WILDFLOWER LAKE MAY After photographing the entire swamp

After photographing the entire swamp milkweed plant

Eakin Creek West becomes frozen in time while a box elder tree is engulfed in crystals from the freezing rain at Wildflower Park

which I did

While trying to get a photograph of the male

A WINTER SUNRISE FROM WILDFLOWER LAKE MAY After photographing the entire swampAs the sun begins to break the horizon, the first light starts to illuminate this winter scenic landscape from a patterned Wildflower Lake. The freshly fallen snow and the frigid temperatures at 0F help create patterns of small lines across the lake leaving shadows behind before the sunlight begins to take over during this February morning at Wildflower Park. (530 17)