The sunrise this morning from my studio looking out across the Wind River.  Not a bad way to start the day.

My resident deer population dropped by yesterday afternoon for a short visit and to get a drink from the river.

Our old reliable chinook winds have dropped by and warmed things up quite a bit melting the lower elevation snow but dropping more in the high country.  It sets the clouds sailing with occasional sprinkles of rain.  Late afternoon on the East Fork is a great place to capture the late afternoon light created by the moods of the weather.

Our weather has definitely taken a turn to winter.  Very gray skies and cold with even single digits yesterday morning.  Color is reduced to dark and light.   Even in the Badlands east of Dubois that is such a spectrum of color and light.

Winter has definitely decended upon Wyoming with about 4" of snow in central Wyoming near Casper where I had to make a quick run to the past few days.  These Pronghorn Antelope were busy searching out breakfast.  More snow fell last night and the temperature this morning was 7 degrees.

Our snow temporarily ended yesterday with clousy skies and flurries.  The mountains in particular got buried with up to 18" and undoubtably more in places.  About an hour after I took this picture snow moved back in for several hours and there is more forecast in the next several days.  And cold.

Yesterday morning it began snowing lightly about 7 AM  By 10 the flakes got serious and were about the size of silver dollars dropping about two inches in town before dropping off to flurries.  In the evening it began raining at 33 degrees that is totally unheard of in this country.  By morning we had just under 1 inch of moisture.  A real God send.  We needed this so much.  The mountains were buried in the white stuff with up to 18" on the ground.  More forecast the next few days