15-Jan-2008
Small pix are all links to larger 1024x768 versions.
A little later I set aside working on Arisia stuff and went outside. The temp was just around freezing and apparently the snow was being very clingy as a result, piling up on everything with no wind to knock it off. |
As a result, it was putting a lot of extra weight on tree branches. |
The sheer *density* of the heavily covered foliage was what prompted me to venture out and make efforts to be artistic... |
Here we can see how the snow not only stuck to every tiny twig, it didn't just pile up vertically but actually *expanded* as it built up. |
Tangled trees in the nearby swamps |
This didn't really capture the backlit sparkling effect that I could *see*. Too much dynamic range for the CCD, probably... |
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Nearby road |
These folks didn't bother shoveling their driveway, preferring to just blast through it with their SUV. Once this gets rained on and refreezes, they'll probably regret not doing the work. |