Image of the Week

This is an old one, but it's what the trees looked like a few days ago after our last snow.

It's Not Just Me

I've been thinking the winter has been extraordinarily mild -- I mean, stretches of temperatures in the 40s in February is not normal here.

I was right:

It occurred to me, as I was thinking about this winter, that the pattern used to be that an arctic air mass would move down toward the end of December and settle a sharp chill over the region. That didn't happen this year, probably because there's next to no Arctic left.

And from the other side of the world, think of Kiribati:



It's pretty grim, but fortunately, Kiribati is not being governed by the Republicans -- its president is dealing with reality.

(PS -- Did you remember to spring forward?)

White Christmas

It snowed again last night.

It looks something like that, although that's an old image. Maybe I really should consider going digital with the photography, even though I've have a full darkroom set-up. Here's a couple more:

I was actually out in a blizzard shooting when I took that one.  And one that I've always liked, even though it bothers me a little -- the dark diagonal through the middle is actually the image, not something I did in processing or printing.