My Love

Is a beacon of sunshine on a foggy day in the mountains of western North Carolina. Sixteen years of marriage is only a beginning, I need decades and centuries more to explore this face and the joy she brings to life. She made this trip to shoot the fog in the fading light of day a joy and an adventure. Everyday is a treasure. ©2005, Marc L. Windahl 

Fog Fence

The setting sun is lost in the fog of a rainy winter afternoon in the mountains of western North Carolina. ©2005, Marc L. Windahl 

Sunset in the Mountains

A church steeple rises over a small mountain village as the last light of a winter's day reflects off the mountain. ©2005, Marc L. Windahl 

Apple Sunset

The sun sets on an apple orchard and farm in the western North Carolina mountians. ©2005, Marc L. Windahl 

Dawn over the mountains

The early light of the day reflects of the trees and mountains in the distance in western North Carolina. ©2005, Marc L. Windahl 

Lake Adger

The waters of Lake Adger are seen from a look-out on the Lake Adger Parkway. ©2005, Marc L. Windahl 

Dawn at the oak and ridge

An oak tree basks in the morning sun on a winter's day; its branches reflecting the ridge line between two western North Carolina mountains. ©2005, Marc L. Windahl 

Sunrise reflected off the trees

Early morning light is reflected off the trees along highway 74 near Columbus, NC. ©2005, Marc L. Windahl 

Red Dawn over the mountains

"Red sky at morn; sailors be warned." A red sunrise is reflected off the rain clouds over the western NC mountains. ©2005, Marc L. Windahl 

Wooded Reflections

Sunlight filters through the trees on a warm winter morning. ©2005, Marc L. Windahl 

Still life with fruit

Cooper tries to help me create a still life picture to paint. ©2005, Marc L. Windahl 

Scratch!!

Sometimes you have a scratch that you just can't itch!!! ©2005, Marc L. Windahl

Ice scupltures. The shoreline brush had freezing rain, with crashing waves from a freezing lake on one-side and a road with spalshes on the other. ©2005, Marc L. Windahl 

East Dilworth. Three BNSF engines pull a freight train as the only sun of this December day breaks through the snowclouds to light up the later afternoon sky. ©2005, Marc L. Windahl 

A "Snow Dragon" studies the road with its unblinking eye and large mouth. ©2005, Marc L. Windahl 

Snowy point. The road winds up and around a tree covered point. The rest of the scenery is lost in the snow of a December morning. ©2005, Marc L. Windahl 

Ice scupltures. A section of brush had freezing rain, with crashing waves from a freezing lake on one-side and a road with spalshes on the other. ©2005, Marc L. Windahl 

An island is lost in the snow of a December day. ©2005, Marc L. Windahl 

Winter adventures ©2005, Marc L. Windahl 

Winter adventures ©2005, Marc L. Windahl 

Swans in a row. One swimming trumpeter swan turns to check out the intruder into their snowy December morning. The darker swan tailing is a youngling of this years hatch; a welcome sight for a species once on the verge of extinction. ©2005, Marc L. Windahl 

Trumpeter Swans rest on the the ice or float in the slow current of an open river on a snowy December morning. ©2005, Marc L. Windahl 

Trumpeter swans in flight are photographed against the grey of snowclouds of an approaching December storm. ©2005, Marc L. Windahl 

A trumpeter swan lands in an open winter on a snowy December morning. ©2005, Marc L. Windahl