Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Snow! So much snow!

Down here in the South we had a monstrous blizzard! We must have gotten 2 inches!

My camera broke at the beginning of last semester so I have not been able to share any pictures here. Since that tends to shape what I post here I have had little motivation to create any content. I'm wondering whether I can justify buying a decent camera but that is neither here nor there.

Since I can't show you what it looks like here, I'm going to share a selection of photos I took when I was back home on break with my parents' camera.
 We got two significant snow falls while I was home. This and the following one were taken then. The camera's batteries died shortly thereafter.

 This one is looking upstream at the grill created when the water level falls after a time of freezing. The river iced, which created a base for the snow. You can see that the water fell in two main stages. I won't say how close I came to falling in a few times trying to get this shot.
 The following photographs were taken after the second snowfall. We got a deep layer of powder. While it was very sunny out, there was a bitter wind, and the batteries froze up a lot more quickly than I would have liked.
 This reminds me of a caravan of camels marching head to tail, though perhaps Hannibal attacking Rome from the north with his elephants would be closer.
 Snow Dromedaries.

A sycamore tree. You can see how the snow has stuck to the sides from the wind when it fell. 
 The house, framed by the Castle's door.