Photo of the Week

Late afternoon sun brings out the texture and mid-winter coloring in the rocks and landscape along the stream leading to the Brandywine Creek along Beaver Dam Road.

Rob Swanson, of West Grove, finds areas of the Brandywine that aren’t frozen so he can enjoy his paddleboard on a cold Feb. 1.

A giant mouth, a fossil, from the long-extinct Rock Gobbler species, is found along the banks of the Brandywine.

A knot on a downed tree looks like the eyeball of some large prehistoric creature.

This is January, not Paul Simon’s “deep and dark December,” but it’s still a cold winter’s day with frigid temperatures causing snow and ice to block part of the Brandywine’s flow at the ChesLen Preserve in Newlin Township.

A warm image belies some frigid temperatures.

A spectral image stands watch over a closed for-the-season SIW produce stand.

The waterfall along Beaver Dam Road is frozen. Just a month ago we had temperatures in the mid to upper 70s, even as high as 80. Perhaps we’ve been transported to Frostbite Falls, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle.

A Kennett Township resident poses for a candid after-lunch photo shoot.

It’s still early December but ice is already forming around the spillway at Newlin Grist Mill Park.