Beaver Meadow Snowfall

A quiet January scene from New York’s Eastern High Peaks Wilderness Area. Beaver (or their temporary absence) play a big role in the landscape of the Adirondacks, creating clearings in the vast northern forest. Sometimes a few trees survive the flooding, punctuating the view as ponds change to wetlands, meadows and brush fields before reverting to forests.

This is a stitched combination of three vertical images (actually cropped from a wider panorama). You can see individual snowflakes filling the sub-zero sky in the full-size version.