On Thursday and Friday, we finally got some significant (about six inches) snow… that is, if you don’t count the twenty one inches way back in October!
Yesterday dawned cold (about 20 degrees) and gray. However, about 2 PM, I noticed the clouds starting to break up as the expected cold front arrived; the temperature was still around 20. I headed out to the north end of “our” beaver swamp to see what would develop. I took my first photo at 2:35 and spent the next hour photographing the swamp in very changeable conditions; both the clouds and the lighting were in constant flux.
The sun went below the ridge of Robb Mountain just about 3:45 putting the foreground in shadow. Thus, I broke the tripod and my feet free from the ice, packed up and headed home as the temperature dropped rapidly.
It was about ten or twelve degrees by the time I got home. The temperature continued to drop into the night and it was right around zero when I rose this morning. As I write this (at about noon) the temperature stands at about five.
Today might be a day to prints some of the recent photos in my nice cozy studio!
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P.S. As I went to publish this, I notice that it is my one hundredth entry; my first entry appeared on 24 May 2010. The first anniversary passed unnoticed by all!