Well, you do what you can to find beauty on a cold January day in Iowa. These photos were taken during my walk this morning, with fingers nearly frozen on the camera.
When you're desperate for an interesting photo subject, fencelines and fenceposts can fill the bill. In winter, they stand in sharp contrast to their snow-covered surroundings.
I should take lots of photos of farm fencelines, because they're gradually disappearing from the landscape. Erected many decades ago when all farmers pastured cattle and horses in the fields, fences are now mostly obsolete. The crop farmers of today simply take the fences out to accomodate their huge tractors and combines. As the fencelines disappear, so do trees and bushes which provided nesting places for birds.
On our farm, we do maintain our fences for the times in the summer and fall when Husband decides to pasture cows, heifers, or calves. There's something peaceful about seeing cattle out grazing in a green pasture. Why that is, I don't know.
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