Cold Warm-Up
02/18/2021
Winter storm Uri (how crazy that winter storms now have names?!) dumped about 8" of new snow on top of the 4" layer that was already on the ground. It's the biggest snowstorm we've had in a few years.
I peeked my camera out through the front door and took these photos before the sun was up...
Kim was out on the tractor plowing out the Gray compound before anyone had even driven down the road.
Not only was it very snowy, the temperatures were in the teens and the wind was brutally cold.
By the time I made it outside with my camera, a few trucks had carved out a path down our road. Gonna take more than a foot of snow to keep our farmer friends with their big trucks off the roads...
Drifts over the split rail fences....
An iced-over fishpond is under there somewhere...
No picnics happening any time soon...
Our little birdie friends leaving their footprints on our porch. I've always wondered how birds are able to survive and keep warm in these frigid conditions, but they somehow manage.
Then yesterday morning, the world was dazzling!
The extreme cold (-5 degrees when I got up!) caused the snow to look like God had sprinkled glitter over everything.
Photos cannot do it justice...but it was stunningly beautiful!
I bundled up and got out with my camera, getting in a little practice shooting in the cold snowy conditions.
It was good practice for our upcoming trip to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks next week, which will be every bit as cold and even snowier than this.
You might say, this was my photographic warm-up for the cold.
Or...a cold warm-up.
Love the snowy pictures God's beautiful winter wonderland!
Posted by: Janet | 02/18/2021 at 03:12 PM