This will be a quick photo post because it’s Monday and I have to get a jump on things before inertia sets in and this house gets declared a disaster area by Thursday.
I can’t believe it’s mid-November and the view from my bedroom window looked like this:
Last time I checked the weather, they said we would get some flurries. Sure looked like 3 to 4 inches worth of flurries to me.
But look at our bamboo. Still green, still standing. Well, bending, really. But look at how gracefully it does it. Much like me. (Well, maybe not. I would probably have cracked a few joints bending like that. Plus, all that swaying with the wind action would set off my motion sickness, and I’d end up getting sick on the pool. Then we’d have to convert the pool into a gigantic fire pit just to sanitize it.)
I’m sorry for giving you that image to start off the week. Let’s go back to the bamboo, shall we?
I thought I was done freezing outside trying to take pictures, and settled inside where we had a nice fire going and I got comfortable on the couch nursing a big mug of hot chocolate. Then I had this strange feeling come over me. I looked outside and realized I was being watched.
Sorry, Bambi. (Or is it Rudolph?) You’ll need opposable thumbs or at least be able to balance well on two legs before I let you use my Shrewshutters coffee mug. And don’t say you’ll set it on the ground and just sip from there, ’cause I know once you burn your nose, you’re knocking it over and spilling everything everywhere and possibly breaking my new mug.
Besides, if people start asking, how in the world am I going to explain brown snow?
PS Sorry for not having time to fix tweak the photos. It was either fire up Photoshop or have a second mug of hot chocolate. Chocolate trumps work every time. Well, almost every time.
Though I’m not ready for the snow, it certainly is beautiful. The natural light from snow is so nice.
I’m enjoying these pictures just as they are, hut!
Brc, I agree. I should say that the first few shots I took looked bluish. Then I remembered my camera has a setting for snow, and then everything looked right again.
Jen, thanks! I’m kinda liking them as is too. It was really beautiful outside this morning.
Very nice!
The middle one looks very much like a delicate Japanese woodcut, and the other two are definitely keepers as well.
Good eye!
Enjoy the snow, we rarely get it here.
Wow, I heard about snow blowing through PA yesterday – it must have kept coming to you. How cool to have that visitor stay long enough to have its picture taken!
Bambi and bamboo in one post, not bad!
I LOVE these shots!!!
Thanks everyone! It was the good kind of snow – stayed long enough to be photographed, but melted by the end of the afternoon so I wouldn’t have to contend with ice the next morning.
Sherweld, we’ll be thinking about you and your rare snow come next blizzard or noreaster.
Bambi and bamboo. Haha! And that was unintentional too!