April showers leave raindrops on a pair of daffodils.

Ice thaws in old Pa Pitt’s favorite little stream in Mount Lebanon.

After a big freeze comes a big thaw, filling streams and flooding rivers.

With warm temperatures and steady rains, streams are rushing and brooks are babbling.

A wintry sunrise over the southeastern suburbs.

The snow that fell earlier this week is still here for Thanksgiving, melting and refreezing into interesting patterns of ice.

In the late fall, a field of goldenrod gone to seed is both decorative and a bit mournful.

Most of the leaves have fallen, so we can see down into the hollow through the trees. But a few bright patches of color remain.