Winthrop’s Winter Wonderland

What started out as a harmless walk through town, over the Spring Creek Bridge to meet with (the loveliest) potential wedding clients– turned into, what felt like a virtual ad for the Winthrop-Winter-Wonderland.

I passed sledders, ice skaters, bikers and skiers on Spring Creek Ranch property.  Men and women ranging in age from 2 to 65, they were all moving and smiling and it was really cold out.  But, it was also beautifully sunny and that makes all the difference now doesn’t it?  I, myself could hardly keep my hands gloved and in my pockets where they were toasty warm.  Every time I looked about I just had to take a picture… until my right hand became kinda numb and so I missed out on photographing Spring Creek’s enormous weeping willow which looked like, it really looked like an ice chandelier.  The willow that graces the Ranch House yard, was encapsulated in ice, each branch was wrapped in its own sparkling icicle and with the sun pouring through it… I can only hope that the right atmospheric ingredients confluence one more time this winter so that I can try to snap a picture.  Numb fingers or not.

Wild, Winthrop, Winter, Wonderland?  Winterland…Wonderthrop…WinterWonderWinthrop?  Bare with me here, I couldn’t resist!