During the winter months in Siouxland I sometimes get a bit of cabin fever. When it is extremely cold out, I just hate leaving the house. Trying to photograph in extremely cold weather is just not fun. Period. But sometimes I brave the cold anyway and take a look around.
With recent weather patterns producing hoar frost and fog in the area I did venture out to take a look. I reasoned some of the county backroads I like to drive on would be frozen solid enough that driving on them would be possible. And I also reasoned that no one else would probably be out for a Sunday drive like me. Rather, staying home and watching a football game.
And while I didn’t exactly find any really, stellar scenes to photograph, it was interesting to see what the countryside looks like and makes me wistful to begin thinking about excursions out when the weather is a bit more accommodating and beginning to green up. It’s also good to have dreams of what might be. And then again, that patience issue comes up and one must take each day at a time and see what comes.
Jerry Mennenga
Sioux City, Iowa
lostinsiouxland 
Another nice collection of shots, especially the last three. The color in the third from the bottom makes that shot in my opinion, but wondering how those last two would look just in black and white.
Somedays when shooting I kind of space out and think about changing from color to B&W, but don’t. The last two would be find in just black and white I believe. Thank you.