As my fellow-Knoxvillians know, we had a brief - make that very brief - taste of winter recently.

I've missed our old snowy winters of late, so I stepped outside and took a few evening snow pictures while the opportunity was ripe.

This is a pic of my favorite Knoxville, Tennessee snow-sprinkled yard. It doesn't matter where it is, I just like the place. :-)

From the looks of the still-black roof and snowy yard, it looks to me like they don't have much in the way of attic insulation. I bet their heating bill is a bear!

These next two pictures are of one of my favorite places to stop and take a few quick shots on the way into or from work.

I just love this place! The river and the railroad bridge, and the trees and hills around it...Nice, peaceful Knoxville waterfront location. A shame I can't afford such property!

On this particular morning, there were actually little sheets of ice all over the river. You can see them as darker spots on the water. That doesn't happen too often around here any more!

And the water was so peaceful, it was like a mirror. No boats, no birds, no fish jumping -- just the river looking for all the world like it wasn't moving at all.

It was a great Knoxville nature moment, if I do say so myself.

Speaking of which, if you're a Knoxville nature lover, and you'd like to submit some of your pics to this photo blog, I'd love to see them.