These photographs are for Prof. Joe Spruiell,
colleague and friend, who was in my thoughts as I wandered through these woods.

Snow fell. Schools closed. In the morning, I got on the bike and went out to check it out.


I biked out to the Ijams quarries.


The trees bent over with the weight of the snow.


I visited the Ross Marble Quarry first.


I followed the path down into the quarry.


There were no footprints in the snow at the bottom of the quarry.


Views from the bottom of the quarry.


A few flurries continued to fall.


Then I got back on the trail.


View of the canopy from below.


I went down into Hayworth Hollow.


Huge cubes of stone are littered across the pit.


A snow covered cubic rock.


Hayworth Hollow.


A suggestion of railroad tracks.


Third quarry, Mead's Quarry is filled with water.


Views of the lake.


Another view.


Back home, the view down the tree-lined Island Home Boulevard.