365-40 It's back......

Snow and ice are back today! Thankfully it began melting all in the same day - the morning will bring record lows yet Sunday is predicted to be almost 70!

365-39 And the sun returns!

365-38 still going

These little chile pequins look none the worse for wear after 4 days of freezing ice and snow -

365-37 puppy tracks

365-9 It's snowing!!

I know by now most people are probably sick of snow but this is our first snow of the season. Supposed to snow all day and into the night --- once it's done i'll have had my snow 'fix' for the year.

365.10 Blue

Ok, after viewing a couple of the shots i took on our snow day, couldn't resist. i played with the flash and white settings on several shots. I thought this one came out interesting.

365-8 Atoms Away!

Today on the first day of spring it snowed. Snowed! But i am tired of winter (i'm not much of a cold weather girl - once is enough for me and we've had more than once already). So instead of posting another snow picture......

The other day i took a walk in my neighborhood. It was a gorgeous day - the sun couldn't make up its mind whether to stay behind the clouds or shine its full glory. It was a good day to practice some more with my camera. Because of changing light i had to keep changing the settings in order to get the best shot. I came across one of these red berry-type bushes - the way the photo came out it almost looks like atoms flying at you - almost.

What a difference a day makes

Well after our record snow fall here, my kids and i drove around the neighborhood once roads were decent to look at the many snowmen built. Had to share these two - a Valentine snowman and a chicken! The snow is gone now, schedules are back to normal with school and work, planes are back in flight. I imagine people flying off to warm exotic place. These "sculptures" are reduced to tiny mounds of snow, but they will live on here to come back another day -- and i will eventually get back to a warm exotic place too.

Day 2 of Snow!

Well today was an official snow day, all schools closed and my job location was closed. it had snowed even more last night. Totals acording to the news are about 10 to 13 inches depending on where you live. Although we still have power a large area does not (about 180,000 homes). Our satellite signal did go out last night but now its back. This morning i did a short walk in the snow and took some pictures at a small block near my home -

Snow Day!!!

I'm sure most people up north are sick to death of all the snow and cold they've had. But here in Texas we hardly ever get snow, much less like the snow fall we had today. It was a TRUE SNOW DAY. Unfortunately nothing closed so we had to just watch the snow fall from our windows (those of us lucky enough to have windows in our work areas). All day i just wanted to go out and play, make snowmen, have a snowball fight and make snow angels. The snow is just pouring down like nobody's business and not much work is getting done as everyone keeps going to the window to watch this rare treat.
i managed to take a few photos with my cell phone on the way in to work this morning. not very good ones - but you get the idea here. From the weather forcast this promises to stick around till tomorrow so should have some much better pics then.