snow
SNOWING AGAIN
Of course we knew it was going to snow today. It was all over the news last night. As it always is. For a region that gets a great deal of snow every winter, the paroxysms of hysteria on the… Read More ›
WHEN ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
“Hey, wait, stop,” I say. But I am late, too late. Covered with ice and melting snow, the huge hairy beast is on me. Before can dodge out of the way, I am as sodden, and far colder, than Bubba…. Read More ›
WHITE WEATHER WITH MUSIC
It wasn’t a heavy snow. No great accumulation despite many hours when flakes drifted past the windows through the naked trees. A frosting. Inches not feet. Wet snow that quickly melts. The ground was a bit warm for such a… Read More ›
FIRST SNOW – DECEMBER 2013
I hoped — a little — that we weren’t going to get snow. But of course, we did. Not a lot. An inch, maybe two. A dusting, really — at least for this area. The real snows will come, I’m… Read More ›
WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: GRANDEUR OF A FRESH SNOWFALL
The morning after a snowstorm, the air is absolutely clear, washed clean by wind and snow. The skies are robin’s egg blue, sunshine the bright pale yellow of winter. The day after a storm, our woods is perfect. All its… Read More ›
SNOWY FIELD DURING THE STORM
I took this picture in the middle of a snowstorm. The image looks a bit foggy, but the fog is actually falling snow. I have tried a variety of filters and cropping. I love the picture, but I’ve never gotten… Read More ›
Daily Prompt: Mid-Season Replacement – FOREVER FALL
I could happily live in perpetual autumn. Warm enough, cool enough. It’s an elegant season, bright with color. The sun is amber and warm … our most beautiful season. For that alone … and because I dread the long cold… Read More ›
Wait a minute …
So you move to New England. It’s a region renowned for terrible weather. Hot, sticky and wet all summer. Muddy, slushy and gray through spring. Chest deep in snow all winter, sometimes starting in autumn and not ending until nearly… Read More ›
Weekly Photo Challenge: Snow Sky and the Day After
Mid afternoon, the day before the biggest snow in 20 years — 29 inches fell that night in the valley, but more in other places not far away including Boston which got more than 30 inches — the sky had… Read More ›
Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh As New Fallen Snow
There is nothing as fresh and pure as a new snowfall. This is dawn, the first sunrise following the big blizzard last December. For those brief hours, in the hush after the storm, the world is perfect, smooth, new and… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 