Scenic winter photos

Photographs of animals in the snow from winters past, and a few signs as well.

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Fri., Dec. 11, 2009

A snow-covered white tail deer watches passing cars for a handout Thursday afternoon near the Beyond Hope Resort near Hope, Idaho. The area is a wildlife preserve where deer roam the country roads and occasionally approach passers-by looking for a snack.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review
Two snow-covered white tail deer greet each other and watch passing cars for a handout Thursday afternoon near the Beyond Hope Resort near Hope, Idaho.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review
Snow and mud all but camouflaged the pen of Amazingly Cool, a 3-year-old paint stud owned by Jean McIntosh and Tom Selberg of Hayden on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2006.

Kathy Plonka The Spokesman-Review
Ducks exit after a pothole swim in downtown Spokane on Jan. 9, 2009.

Christopher Anderson The Spokesman-Review
Kazu, a 1-year-old pug, pulls a tiny aluminum keg through the snow in the K-9 Keg Pull event Saturday in Sandpoint, the site of the annual Winter Carnival. Kazu, belonging to Lily Mitsui, competed in the small dog division.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review
A tom turkey struts across Twin Lakes Road in Twin Lakes with the rest of the flock as snow falls March 20, 2002. The weather was more like Thanksgiving instead of the first day of spring.

Kathy Plonka The Spokesman-Review
A pair of horses graze on hay during a morning snowstorm March 20, 2002 – the first day of spring – at the Trail Town Stables in Riverside State Park.

Dan Pelle The Spokesman-Review
Several gulls wander through the morning snowfall near Lake Coeur d'Alene on Feb. 26, 2002.

Kathy Plonka The Spokesman-Review
"He was a present for my fifth birthday," said Bonnie Sportato, of Hayden about Fella, her Arabian horse. "He's now 40 years old, she added. Jan. 7, 2004, photo.

Kathy Plonka The Spokesman-Review
A snow-covered field of uncut Alfalfa has been feeding several thousand geese resting on the Spokane River in Otis Orchards.

J. Bart Rayniak The Spokesman-Review
The waterfowl of Manito Park had nowhere to hide during a snowstorm March 5, 2004.

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A buffalo sits during a late winter 2002 snowstorm in western Montana.

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A street sign says it all Dec. 18, 2008, about an ice storm that hit Spokane. Most of the folks without power feel exactly like this sign appears, with frozen snow and ice hanging everywhere.

Christopher Anderson The Spokesman-Review
Plows in Spirit Lake built berms high enough to obscure the downtown stop signs on Jan. 28, 2008, after snow dumped across the region over the weekend.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review
A snow shovel sits in a driveway in this December 2000 photo.

Dan Pelle The Spokesman-Review