Closed For The Season

Posted by Russ Devan (New Hanover, United States) on 22 February 2008 in Abstract & Conceptual and Portfolio.

It snowed today....FINALLY!!! Not just a dusting or an inch either. It was a real live, snowman-making, school-closing, driveway-shoveling, late-for-work, leave-early-from-work, hot chocolate-by-the-fire type snowstorm. After months of gray and brown and mud, it's just what I've been waiting for. We received 6 inches today followed by rain and freezing rain. Taking our 5-month old lab puppy outside this morning was a riot as it was only her second experience with snow. She would stick her face in it to sniff the ground and come up with a face full of white. She was so excited by it, she literally ran circles around me at full gallop, changing direction 3 or 4 times. It was all I could do to keep her from wrapping her leash around me as I stood there and laughed at her.

At lunchtime, I went out to the lake near my office and poked around with the camera for a few minutes and found this water fountain completely covered with snow, so I thought I'd try an abstract shot. Hopefully, the snow will stick around long enough this weekend that I can get more shots.

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