Gather Ye Ice Bits While Ye May
Last night the weather forecasters were predicting that our area (the higher ground up where I reside, at least) was going to get 10 centimeters of snow. Yep, you heard me right ... snow! Now, I can't wait to get a nice fresh batch ... two feet or so ... of the white stuff so that I can really give those tracks I bought for the Argo late last winter a good workout. But heck, it's not even mid-October and the leaves have hardly begun to turn color ... so, it's just a tad early and a little hard to get your head around!
Still, I shouldn't have worried. Despite having a myriad of resources available to them, most weather forecasters today seem to excel ... really excel ... at only one thing: telling you what the weather is like right at the moment they are talking to you. So, we didn't get that ten centimeters of snow last night ... didn't even get a single flake as far as I can tell.
Still, on the drive home this afternoon, the flakes really did start to fly! Didn't last long, but a little did collect on the windshields of vehicle parked in driveways. In all my years ... well, not really that many :-) ... I've never seen it snowing down here this early. So, it seemed appropriate to put up an image which would perhaps send shivers down your spine.
Don't know what these guys are doing with that dipnet, but I think they just might be gatheing up some small pieces of that very pure iceberg ice to take home and put in their freezer so that they can take some of it out on cold winter nights and put it in their rum or whiskey. Tonight might be a good time to break it out.
By the way, that tall berg you see there in the background is the same one, albeit shot from a different angle, as the one in my Iceberg In Morning Light shot that I put up here on Flickr earlier : www.flickr.com/photos/33774669@N00/6032213553/in/photostream. So, now I think you can better see why we spent quite a bit of the afternoon in anticipation that it would fall.
Check this one out in the Original Version if you can or, at least, View On Black
Gather Ye Ice Bits While Ye May
Last night the weather forecasters were predicting that our area (the higher ground up where I reside, at least) was going to get 10 centimeters of snow. Yep, you heard me right ... snow! Now, I can't wait to get a nice fresh batch ... two feet or so ... of the white stuff so that I can really give those tracks I bought for the Argo late last winter a good workout. But heck, it's not even mid-October and the leaves have hardly begun to turn color ... so, it's just a tad early and a little hard to get your head around!
Still, I shouldn't have worried. Despite having a myriad of resources available to them, most weather forecasters today seem to excel ... really excel ... at only one thing: telling you what the weather is like right at the moment they are talking to you. So, we didn't get that ten centimeters of snow last night ... didn't even get a single flake as far as I can tell.
Still, on the drive home this afternoon, the flakes really did start to fly! Didn't last long, but a little did collect on the windshields of vehicle parked in driveways. In all my years ... well, not really that many :-) ... I've never seen it snowing down here this early. So, it seemed appropriate to put up an image which would perhaps send shivers down your spine.
Don't know what these guys are doing with that dipnet, but I think they just might be gatheing up some small pieces of that very pure iceberg ice to take home and put in their freezer so that they can take some of it out on cold winter nights and put it in their rum or whiskey. Tonight might be a good time to break it out.
By the way, that tall berg you see there in the background is the same one, albeit shot from a different angle, as the one in my Iceberg In Morning Light shot that I put up here on Flickr earlier : www.flickr.com/photos/33774669@N00/6032213553/in/photostream. So, now I think you can better see why we spent quite a bit of the afternoon in anticipation that it would fall.
Check this one out in the Original Version if you can or, at least, View On Black