February 10, 2005
A beautiful sight or The snow monster lives!
This snowstorm has been something else. It started out as 12+ hours of rain before switching over to snow. I went out at around 6pm to use the snow thrower. It was a pain, but nothing like it would have been to use a shovel instead. The snow was thick and heavy since it was mixed with rain and it kept clogging the tube that throws the snow.
The slushy snow compacted and then kind of oozed out like a Play-Doh machine gone mad. It was like those ice cores that they drill in Antarctica in order to determine the climate thousands of years ago.
A few hours later I turned on the back light to see if it was still snowing and took this picture. It looks like a scary snow monster, poised to pounce on the unwary and acting as a safe haven for the snow snakes.
Oh, this is fantastic! I live somewhere it never snows: I don't even know what a snow thrower is. It's great the way the camera flash picks out the falling snowflakes. Beautiful.
Posted by: Deirdre on February 11, 2005 06:35 AM