Photoblog!

[anghara]

This was less than an hour ago, out my front door...



Ditto, out the back, into the woods...



This was yesterday, trying to take a pic of that bit of snow in the cedar through a window and not realising that there was a Christmas lights reflection thing going on... presto, instant Christmas cheer in the wild wood. I liked the accident...



Rudolph the Snow Nosed Deer...



Squirrel in the snow



Bird in Blizzard

(as always, click on pics for bigger)



In other news I've discovered that I've comprehensively forgotten how to make a snowman. I was just out there trying to, in perfect snow, and somehow all I managed was a snow stalagmite.

Still. I had fun.

It's positively BALMY out there today - hovering at or just above freezing - according to the forecast it's back into the deep freeze tomorrow for a couple of days - but today... man... I just love watching it snow. There's... just... SOMETHING

And if nothing changes within the next couple of days we're having a white Christmas this year.

As it should be.

Comments

[alaneer.livejournal.com]

Snow! They're beautiful. I hadn't seen snow in years. Thanks for sharing them.

[anghara.livejournal.com]

I might write about my memories of snow from the Old Country now...

[alaneer.livejournal.com]

That would be nice. Will you post it here?

[mela-lyn.livejournal.com]

Um, I'm totally moving in with you. Just so's ya know...

[anghara.livejournal.com]

[grin]

[little-foxy.livejournal.com]

Love the snow shots! Thank you for sharing... Keep make my day a little more bearable. It is a tad warm and muggy here... (Sydney, Aus in case you were wondering).

And lights in the woods is a gorgeous accident!

[anghara.livejournal.com]

Yassum. I spent half my life in the wrong (sorry, hon, but it IS [grin] hemisphere. It just ain't right for CHristmas and New Year to be beach-going days. I never could wrap my head around that. Christmas should like like outside looks like right now - white, frosty, glittering, with lights on house eaves up and down the street and the crunch of snow underfoot in the night...

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is nice. I've been reading the first Worldweavers book, and it just became that much more real from looking at your West Coast pictures.

[anghara.livejournal.com]

Heh. Thanks.

Wait till you get to the end of the trilogy. End of book 3. These books do range far and wide across the United States but in essence what they are... is a love letter to the Pacific Northwest...

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

The closest I've been is Yellowstone, but some descriptions brought up fond Adirondack memories.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Pictures are gorgeous as always. Your photos are always good, but most especially your winter ones.

And the good news here is my MIL survived her one-day trip to Seattle, didn't freeze though I gather there were some paperwork fusses, and now everything's in order and they will be here tonight!

[anghara.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

And yay for the conquering of snowy Seattle and the impending visit! We had Serious Snow today, and I saw one two truck driving slowly down our street with what looked like a pretty totalled car in tow. People are DRIVING out in this stuff but it isn't the people who KNOW what they're doing that are teh problem, it's people like me who don't. Which is why I'm staying home for the holidays, as it were...

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I especially like the one with the reflected tree lights.

I love the snow in your pictures, but I'm happy to share your pleasure vicariously. On the other hand, now I don't have a long commute to work, I might enjoy a bit of real snow, just as long as it doesn't stay too long. *g*

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

Here via E.Bear's LJ, which I can never spell on my own.

Your animal photos are great! The bird is a Varied Thrush (http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Varied_Thrush.html), btw.

[anghara.livejournal.com]

And welcome to my blog...

Yeah, our thrushes are our winter visitors. In summer they move higher up the mountain, and we know winter is coming when we first start seeing them on the feeder around November. But boy did they get a bum deal this winter. I don't know how cold it is on the MOUNTAIN, but they're forecasting a low of SEVEN DEGREES tonight, and this probably isn't what the thrushes were bargaining for when they came down the mountain seeking warmer climes...