This battered stop sign expresses what many of us have been thinking here in Connecticut: enough, already, with the snow and ice!

I used the Sumi-E filter for this one. I think it made it look like a pen and ink drawing, emphasizing the sense of lonliness. It might work well for the Abandonment theme.

A bench at Paper Goods Pond, looking rather lonesome in the winter chill.

I didn't think there could be much to do with a fairly standard sunset shot--but Ink Outlines gives it the look of a Japanese pen and ink drawing.

Even in a bleak urban setting, one can sometimes find a sliver of sky-fire.

A little work with the Graphic Pen filter, and it reminds me of something from the sketchbook of a 19th century naturalist.

Yes, I'm tired of ice and snow, too...and it's only early January! But a layer of frozen precipitation alters the look of the most ordinary things, like the stones under our trees.