Greensprings

After spending most of Christmas Eve morning in our pajamas drinking coffee, we decided to go stretch our legs a bit by taking a walk on a local interpretive nature trail called Greensprings. It's the same trail we walked with my mom back during the peak of the autumn leaves, but it looks just as beautiful -- quite differently beautiful, though -- with naked trees in the winter.

At one point I decided to venture off the trail a few steps so I could take a few pictures of these cattails (or whatever exactly they are) that at one point were no doubt growing out of a body of water, but which today seemed merely to be growing out of the muck.