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Tag: Snow

  • firsts: sledding

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    firsts: sledding

  • white christmas

  • welcome back

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    i’m not necessarily looking for sympathy, having just gotten back from 10 days in costa rica. that said, i feel obligated to point out that less than 36 hours ago we were in flip flops and bathing suits in 89 degree weather. right now, it’s snowing and 26 degrees. oy.
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    first snow of the winter, arlington, virginia

  • exodus

    we’re back, and it looks like DC had every bit as much “fun” as we thought while we were gone.

    while we were out, one of our favorite ways of keeping up with the snow was by following darrow montgomery’s photos at washington city paper’s blog. the above photo was taken about 100 feet from our place (for those who know Mount Pleasant, that “open” sign is at Heller’s Bakery) during the height of the second storm.

    i can’t really fathom what it must have been like.

    in the end, our long weekend in Austin for Auntie Nadine’s wedding turned out to be an 11 day journey. and, based on the size of the snow drifts, it seems being “stuck” in 40 degrees-and-rainy Austin was probably the best option.

    still, it’s good to be home.

    PHOTO: the above photo is courtesy Darrow Montgomery and/or the Washington City Paper. check out the rest of Darrow’s work, and the City Desk blog.

  • found: first snow angel

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    photo of the week // week ten

  • photos: snowfall in mount pleasant, dc

    [Snow, Mount Pleasant, Washington, DC.]
    IMG_3102, originally uploaded by [ecpark].
    holy moses, it’s actually snowing?!?

    it seems like every other year, the D.C. weathermen predict at least one “major” storm that will paralyze the city … although, seeing that three inches of snow is more than enough to bring D.C. to its knees, i guess “major” is a relative term.

    we’re supposedly at 10 inches, which would already puts us in the top five storms of the last twenty years. we got 24 inches of snow my junior year of college, a much smaller storm (maybe a foot?) in high school, and i remember using a yardstick to measure a 20+ incher back when i was seven or eight.

    outside of those, we’ve had way more false alarms than anything of interest … which is a good thing, because in the end D.C. is a southern town, and southerners (a) refuse to walk or use public transit, and (b) only think they know how to drive on snow.

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    snowfall in mount pleasant, dc

  • found: first snow

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    IMG_0904, originally uploaded by [ecpark].

  • photos: snowfall in mount pleasant, d.c.

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    photos: snowfall, washington, dc

  • Photos: Snowfall in Arlington

    Snowfall

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    Snowfall in Arlington, Virginia

  • Photos: There and Back Again

    As I have complained before, it’s been a little cold for photography … and it’s even snowed several times in the last two weeks (which almost scandalous for Washington, DC).

    While I am enough of a New Englander to not complain about 4 inches of snow, I am enough of a DC’er to allow the snow to suck out my will to leave the house.

    I have spent the last couple of weeks playing around with the camera in my cell phone (an LG-VX8300) which is somewhat shocking in that it has the same resolution as my three year old Canon PowerShot A60.

    Over the space of about 8 days, I took some snaps documenting the way to and from work, and below are a sample of what it produced.