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I've been driving through lots of rain the past couple of days, and on a very tight schedule, so pulled up this winter shot taken near Winnemucca Nevada taken back in January 2013. I'm near Chicago today, but heading to the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area later today. Hopefully some photo opportunities today.
Ok, this is it for that storm. Saved it for last because I thought it was the most dramatic of the three shots, plus it has an eye. Again, this is in Nevada off US-95 south of Fallon.
The sun broke through what and been a cloudy stormy day. Unfortunately it was near the end of a long tough drive from Idaho to California. This shot was taken in Nevada.
I had to pull over to get a few pictures of this beast. About 50 miles south of Fallon, Nevada on US-95. By the time I reached the summit of Mount Montgomery at over 7,000 feet the snow was coming down hard. Fortunately, I only had about 10 miles of nasty weather, a hard blowing snow storm. Then as I dropped down into California I was past the worst of it. As difficult as winter driving can be, I love the wildness of these storms, photographically anyway.
Following a beautiful, sunny, blue sky day yesterday, a winter storm has arrived. Our forecast is predicting 7 to 12 inches of snow by 11PM tonight. There's already 3 inches of new snow on the ground; and, if it keeps falling as heavily as it is this morning, we may well see a foot by tomorrow. Yikes! In the meantime, happy weekend everyone!
My little friend here needs to eat and so the snow was not going to deter him from having his breakfast here at the feeder on this winter storm day.
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Now the wind goes wild
Deep inside her bones
The song of a winterstorm
Can you feel it rage?
Through all the night
never the sun shall rise
That's how the wind goes wild
Then the storm breaks the eye of the night
Mystic fantasy stuck in her sight
Now she runs, from the shadows who kill with a smile
She can live but one more time
Music Mood
♫ Worlds Beyond | Winterstorm ♫
The sun came out on the morning after a rare winter storm dropped ice, sleet, and snow on North Texas, slowly melting the snow & ice away.
I took about 850 images of this POV and considered myself very lucky to have captured this one at the right time!😊
This concludes my "Special Winter Series".
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It's cold outside and will be dipping down to -20 to -25F tonight. Time to bundle up and put an extra log in the wood-stove.
Thanks to Unsplashed for part of the background.
Eggum beach on the Norwegian Lofoten islands on a winter day as moody as they come. I can't explain why I feel so attracted to these places and that kind of mood, but it feels like dwelling in a special place where few follow and nobody disturbs ...
…everything ends, too soon, too soon…
(from the Kurt Weill & Ogden Nash song “Speak Low”)
A squall sweeps across Labyrinth Canyon, hiding buttes and canyon rims behind a curtain of mostly graupel (snow pellets). The squalls lasted most of the day, and were often accompanied by lightning and thunder, a novel aspect of this dynamic winter storm.
Sunlight shines through a few breaks in the clouds, illuminating the white rims of sandstone called (wait for it….) White Rim Sandstone, remnants of near-shore sand dunes deposited around 250 million years ago. A bit of the Green River, responsible for removing a massive amount of rock that once covered this scene, is visible on the right side. On the far right is the edge of Turks Head, a butte surrounded by the Green River. Just emerging from the curtain on the left (west) are the Buttes of the Cross and the snowy rims above the Orange Cliffs behind.
I remember taking this picture and several others, having to lean into the wind. This was near Mount Shasta and taken from an on-ramp off I-5. I got back in the truck and had about 30 minutes of getting pushed around before things settled, and monster left behind. Just another day on the job.
A blizzard with near white-out conditions in South Dakota while I was home visiting family over the holidays.
Those barely visible trees on the horizon are maybe... 1/4 mile distant (1/2 mile max).
While shooting this I accidentally got a little to close to the ditch (that was filled with snow and I didn't even know was there) and almost fell face first into unknown depths of snow (with my brand new D750).
This was part of Winter Storm Goliath. And it delayed our return trip to Georgia by two days (good thing our schedules were flexible).
Took this almost three years ago while crossing Wyoming. Not that different from the current weather. Shut down tonight near Evanston Wyoming. Should be in California by tomorrow night.
Clouds and windblown snow stream over Junction Butte in Canyonlands National Park as a winter storm blows through southern Utah. This view is from Murphy Bench on the White Rim road near the designated camp sites. The edges of the ridges and buttes facing southward (windward, to the right) are clear of snow due to the high winds. On the far left side of the frame a bit of Grand View Point on Island in the Sky is visible. A section of the White Rim road snakes across the plateau in the center on the right side, cutting toward its namesake (shaded band of rock) and a precarious section right at the edge of the undercut rock.
As I drive up through the Owens Valley on my way up to photograph the eastern Sierra Nevada mountain I often listen to the album, "Joshua Tree by U2."
One song in particular speaks to me, "Where The Streets Have No Name. And while that isn't true, most of the streets and roads up there do have names, I believe this one stanza sums up this image really well for me. "I'll show you a place
High on the desert plain, yeah
Where the streets have no name."
The Owens Valley and The Sierra Nevada, "The Range of Light" after a late Winter Storm.
Another storm the other day. I think I will go for a drive. See ya later.....lol
The problem with heavy snowfalls is that there is no place on the shoulder to pull over.
Happy Fence Friday
We seem to be having a succession of winter storms at the moment. Yes, the sky's been crying a lot lately.
From the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood, California.
A beautiful morning to be out and about in the Owens Valley. I took this shot during the golden hour after sunrise .
Took this farm scene shot off I-80 between Reno and Border Town, Nevada. It had rained then snow that morning in Reno and up in the mountains. Fortunately, spring is winning, and Donner Pass opened and I was able to make it to Sacramento for my pickup. Grandview Washington tonight, no idea where I'm heading next.