November 26, 2005

• Is Mercuffle retrogleep?

  [edit:  Thanks to Zimbo's heads-up, I posted this and its companion piece, Encore with Pratfalls on weekly_Photo_Challenge for this week's challenge, The Elements.]

  A few days ago, on the twenty-third, I took some photos of the new
  heavy snowfall – heavy as in weighty, not particularly deep.  It
  was a gray, overcast day and all the pics are monochromatic. 
  Today, it is clear and sunny and there is even deeper snow than when I
  took these shots.

  So, why, you may ask, did I not go out and take newer, brighter, sunnier pictures instead of posting these. 

  One:  I dont want to let Merfuffle retrogobble get the best of
  me.  When we had the power outage that day, I lost what I had
  written and apparently lost a bit of my memory, too.  When I got
  the computer back up, I’d forgotten about these pics.

  Two:  When I was out there shooting these, it was relatively
  warm.  This morning the sun rose gloriously (in the south, which
  still after all these years is interesting to me, since where I grew up
  the sun always rose in the east) on a scene where the temp was about 20
  below zero F (that’s almost minus 30 C). 

  Some people think I’m crazy just to live here.  I’d really be nuts
  if I let the prospect of some pretty pictures lure me out on days like
  this.  Wait a minute… I have gone out and taken pictures on days like this.  Oh, well….

  our woodpile
  

  a young tree in the front yard, bowed under the weight of snow
  

  a limb of an older tree feeling the weight
  

  spruce trees in our yard south of the woodpile
  

  roadside willow bushes across the way
  

  the uninteresting sky southward from the end of my driveway
  

  Okay, just now I zipped out and snapped one shot from my porch, proof
  that I’m still crazy after all these years.  That’s not as low as
  the mid-day sun will be next month, but it’s low enough for me.
  

  

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