Night & Day Snow

WARNING: By the time you read this, it will be cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey. We're still a week shy of the official start of winter and we've already been blessed with an abundance of snow. And not the nose candy kind either.

On Thursday night, for the second time in little more than a week, Mother Nature saw fit to dump four inches of snow on us here in Louisville. Waited until we were in the thick of it coming down and then a little before midnight went out shooting.

Being a pedestrian in this town can be a bit sketchy in the best of weather. When it rains, much less snows, all bets are off. Especially if you're standing in the road trying to get a shot of the snowplow. Thankfully, only saw one car get the spins and they'd did that deliberately.

It was cold enough the street signs were telling me to wear mittens. Going to get even colder tonight, supposed to be flirting with a record low down in the single digits (think -13 for you Celsius folks). Snowing again too.

Started getting some weird effects, apparently my lens doesn't like it when you point it upwards long enough the snow starts accumulating. Nothing a lens cloth and a month in a dry climate won't cure.

Spent a couple hours wandering around shooting and saw only a single soul out on foot. Fit well with the eerie glow the city has when it snows at night.

Squirrel does not approve of snow. Ended up wandering about until nearly 0200, then got up the next day and went wandering again in the afternoon. Temperature had gotten well above freezing and by the time I headed out a good deal of the snow had melted.

The areas that don't get as much sun still had plenty of snow, which made Iroquois Park my destination. Low clouds and some fog made everything seem even colder than it was.

The deer seemed to mind the click of my shutter more than the cold.

Hung around until the sun went down, would have to say things were as different as night and day.

Now could someone please send us some warmer weather?