I can’t always afford to spend an hour outside with my camera before starting the day, but I never regret getting out doors.  Should I ever seek a moment of frosty solitude, then the barn cat becomes suddenly social, the duck is hungry for tulips, and the children are curious about just how long I plan to be out there doing photos?   So joined by loving people/animals, here’s an assortment of images taken on a frosty February morning.  (I don’t always have buckets of fresh flowers on hand, but the landscape was so perfectly monochromatic, it was screaming for a pop of color, and so I ran back to the house for them.)