Photo Non-Contest #172 -- Muted

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I've used most of my really good overcast sky photos before, but here's a new one wherein the tree's autumn leaves have their colors muted by the covering of snow.  (This was taken last year in an early storm.)

If you click on the pic to enlarge it, you can see the interesting patterns of the twigs beneath the snow.  That's my favorite part of the picture.

Photo Non-Contest #171 -- Classic

Written Inc's theme this week is "classic."
I was trying to think of something that did not involve cars or books, and I ran across this photo.

Yeah, it's waxed paper, and it's so old it doesn't have a bar code on it anywhere.
Last summer my nephews were over for a picnic, and I opened a drawer to get out some plastic wrap for leftover food and found this instead.  It seems Mom had just found it on a shelf in the storeroom, left over from when we cleaned out Grandma's house after she passed away -- in 1976.  No doubt, Grandma had had it on the shelf awhile, too, as you never know when you're going to need waxed paper, and it doesn't exactly spoil.  Yup, my family's like that.  (I have a squeeze bottle of Bactine spray for cuts and scrapes marked 39¢ from a pharmacy that's been out of business for nearly 4 decades.  I used it some of the spray on an insect bite just a few weeks ago.  Worked great.)