Baby, It’s Cold Outside!
I had better rephrase that….Baby, it is bone-chillin’, frigidly FREEZING out there!
I took the Scottie boys out just after 6:30 this morning. I peeked out the front window just to see whether I needed to dress warmly or not and discovered the thermometer was reading “0″! Zero degrees Fahrenheit is cold!
We worked our way onto the frozen tundra and my short-legged companions looked as though they were perhaps trying to invent a new way of walking without their feet actually touching the ground!
There was precipitation in the air….it gave the illusion of walking into a spider web. I guess it was superfine snow coming down more like spun fibres than individual snowflakes. As I walked through a light dusting of snow, the crunching sound seemed to resonate throughout the entire woods. A brisk breeze produced a startlingly amazing noise in the still leaf-clad oak…it resembled bones rattling, as opposed to leaves being moved about by a breeze!
The Scotties hopped about and their flexi-leads pulled me back towards the porch. They were anxious to get back inside the house to the warmth of the woodstove! I brought them inside, then headed back out the door with my camera.
I tried and tried different techniques to capture that fine snow coming down, but it just evaded the sharp sensors in my camera. I captured little “tracers” in which one could see “streaks” of snow, but they just weren’t right. When it is this cold outside, the snow that falls onto the ground produces that light-giving appearance of diamond “fields”!
I noticed that the house and garage both had little patches of snow stuck onto them, reminding me of the Hollywood fake snow that gets sprayed about in winter scenes to give wintry effects. The wreath on the garage had not looked so nice since I put it up shortly before Christmas!
As I walked about in the cold, it was awesome how quiet everything appeared. The noises from the crunching underfoot and the leaves rattling seemed as though magnified….amplified! It is almost unfathomable that by this weekend the temperatures are predicted to rise well above freezing! Off now to dress warmly. I am thinking I just might venture out and see about taking some photos. This cold weather offers some awesome photo ops!
2 Comments »
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL
Nice photographs! Were expecting a drop to around the 32 degree Fahrenheit this evening, but then back above freezing again.
It’s 7 here right now. Not sure it’s going to get much colder than what it is now, but it’ll do! We were at -1 when I headed out for work this morning.