Winter

105 images

From grasslands blanketed with snow to historic architecture decked with holiday lights, this gallery contains a wide variety of winter images to enjoy.

20th Century Christmas
47th St. Tower View
After the Ice Storm
Amish Laundry
Art Glows from the Hill
Aspen Frost Symphony
Blue Spruce and Aspens
Brad's Road
Brush Creek Dusk
Brush Creek Holiday L..ghts
Cardinal Cedar
Chandler Court
Cheyenne Corner Sunset
Cliffty Creek
Country Club Plaza
Crystal Vanishing Point
Discovery Channel Snow
East Prairie First Frost
Eldred Century Snow
Eldred Sunset
Falling Spring
Fedora 47th
$Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Kansas Some of the most beautiful days I have spent outdoors are on prairies the day after an ice storm. Usually the sun comes out and shines on rolling fields of crystals reflecting the sun's rays. Ice storms occur when a warm air mass migrates in between two layers of cold air. The liquid precipitation condenses, and falls as rain or sleet, and then falls into the cold air mass at ground level. The objects on the ground are supercooled and when the rain falls on those objects, the precipitation instantly freezes. Despite their beauty, ice storms can be insidiously dangerous. Aside from hazardous travel, the ice laden trees become so heavy that limbs can fracture and fall without warning. The falling limbs can take out power lines that subsequently land on homes, start fires, or the limbs can catch an onlooker by surprise and cause serious injury or death. One tree that is particularly strong and can carry massive weight on its limbs is the Burr Oak tree, one of the icons of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem.$

Flinthills Icy Sunrise
Flinthills Sheep
Frost to Warmth
Frosted Grass Bundles
Frozen Thinker
Ginkgo Lace
Giralda Sycamore
Giralda View
Ha Ha Tonka Snowscape
Helzberg Tower
Hi Hat
Holiday Time Fountain..iden
Hornblower
Ice Dreams
Ice Window
Iced Little Bluestem
Icy Creek Art
Junco and Snowy Cedar
K for Konza
Kansas City Statue an..ower
Kaw Riparian
KC Snow Curve
KC Snowy River
Konza Limestone Outcrop
Konza Patterns
Konza Pre White Man
Konza Road to the Sky
Konza Winter Clouds
Konza Winter Stepstones
Merced Winter Dawn
Nelson & Bloch Snowy ..ight
New and Old Nelson
Nichols Road Carriage
Nichols Road Lights
Olympic Fireworks
Peering Bobcat
Plaza Christmas
Plaza Clock Sunset
Plaza from 705
Plaza Glow
Plaza Holiday Lights
Plaza Lighting 05
Plaza Lighting 06
Plaza Lighting 2007
Plaza Lights
Plaza Night Sunset
Plaza Snow
Plaza Snowy Eagle
Plaza Snowy Rooftops
Plaza Towers and Lights
Plaza Towers and Ligh..Snow
Plaza Twilight Window
Pomona Star
Pomona Star BWC
Pomona Star Snow
Pomona Twilight
Scout and Iced Tree
Snow Time
Snowing Plaza Tower
Snowy Courtyard
Snowy Courtyard Fountain
Snowy Organ Grinder
Snowy Plaza Lights
Snowy Totem and Tree ..umns
Stream Ice Sculptures
Tallgrass Ice Path
Time 4 arches
Time and Century
Time Tower Tree
Tower Lights Under Snow
Tower to Tower
TPP Ice Gate
Twilight Plaza Snow
Two Snowy Towers
Two Spruce in Birch F..rest
Two Towers
Union Plaza
Union Station Sunset