Casting about for photo subjects of interest this time of year can be challenging, especially living in what amounts to a stark open field.

Still, if you look a little closer, there are subtle colors and enchanting textures to be found everywhere.  It just remains to capture them with what barely counts as a camera, and add a little editing here and there.

I call it–wait for it–trick or tweak!  (Apologies to you pun-haters…you know who you are.)

I guess if there’s a moral or point to this, it’s this: scrape away the human layer of complicated crap, and what you always have left is beautiful, reliable, complex yet simple… nature.  It’s therapeutic, when the world is going mad around you.