Are the first and last with the 50mm? The last photo has some nice bokeh, but that first one you got the background to pretty much disappear :-)
It looks chilly there. We actually had melting temperatures today, but the meteorologists are threatening us with another week of cold. Was that fresh snow?
No, believe it or not it's with my telephoto lens 55-200mm. I didn't want to walk on the ice. These were taken two days ago before the mild spell came and melted most of it away. The snow you see has a layer of ice on it making it smooth and shiny. We too are expecting snow in a couple of days.