Brilliant sky last night. Perfect night for star photography. On long time exposures, the stars rotate around Polaris, tne North Star. On a good, high, hilltop you can get a good angle to catch the star trails.
Shadows and snow from the early morning sun, front yard of our home (above) and back yard (right). A second-straight night of sub-freezing temperatures combined with high winds drove wind chills into single digits and meant the white stuff that fell on Monday will rmain with us for some time yet.
High winds that gusted to over 50 mph redistributed Monday’s snowfall, creating drifts that measured up to eight feet at the top of Bent Mountain and generating hills and patterns in fields along Harvestwood Road (above).
Senior moment time. Posted a photo Wednesday of a sunrise over the New River. Nice photo with ice, snow, etc., to illustrate a cold morning. Then prepared a bunch of other photos, including a sunrise shot from the Rockies from three winters ago to send to a new client who wanted examples of my work. Always use the date in the filename to show when it was sent. Like an idiot, gave the Rockies photo the same date and file name as the New River photo and then uploaded it to the image directory on my server instead of the FTP directory and headed out the door.
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The temperature outside was 10 with a windchill of 4 when the sun rose over the frozen tundra of Floyd County and the Little River near our home this morning.
Damn, that’s cold.
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Wind followed snow into Southwestern Virginia Tuesday with gusts up to 55 mph. Accompanied by snow flurries, the blustery weather send wind chills down to near zero and created a swirling landscape punctuated by an afternoon sun that popped in and out of the crowds.
The welcome rays of sunlight cast gleaming shadows across the landscrape this morning, replacing the grey skies of Monday.
A heavy blanket of snow tends to white out color in our landscape but some still peeks through whether it be the brown of a bush and a tree in our front yard (above) or the green of a tree along Storker’s Knob road (right).