Now that winter is here, having dumped more than two feet of snow on Long Island this weekend, it’s time for my usual scramble to get my photos from the previous season online. You’ll see handful of posts coming in the next few days.

The first batch is a small one, featuring a few of the now bare, thorny vines on my property. They’re from either small rose bushes or the thick and abundant vines that create one of my favorite property features, the rose tree.

Of course, these thorns, like sharks teeth, look ominous, especially in the fall when the flowers and the leaves are dead and they haunt in the open.

I’ve taken a fair amount of these in the arms or the legs when I ride past them on the lawn mower, you’d think I’d learn to give them a wide berth. I guess the roses make me forget, and I don’t have to mow in the winter or the fall, when they’re gone.

Enjoy the photos.

Related posts:

1. Return of the rose tree
2. Another winter blast
3. Same winter, different camera
4. At the very end of fall
5. The rose tree comes and goes