A Lost Post

As you can probably tell by the woods in these pictures, these pictures were not taken recently. I believe they were snapped towards the end of November, just before it snowed here when there was still a bit of autumn color lingering in the forest paths near our house. This was the last path to get color so we had a lovely lingering patch of fall in this little trail as the rest of the area near us started to look more bare. Just yesterday I was walking down this path which has turned to an obstacle course of muddy puddles thanks to yesterday's mix of slush and snow. In December it was a stark and pretty landscape with pristine snow dusting each ghostly, bare branch. Now...