Category Archives: Winter

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Snow Shine and The Dragon

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Nothin’ like sunset over a field of snow … especially one guarded by a dragon

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I’m still encouraging ya’ll to feel some love for winter 🙂

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Juxtaposition

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Or is Dichotomy a better word?  Two things that represent the opposite of one another

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Classic images of summer in the midst of winter

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Bright Colors / White Snow

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Reminders of the sea surrounded by the beauty of winter

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Hang in there, all those who are weary of snow.  To every thing there is a season.

 Try not to overlook one season’s gifts by looking ahead to the next.

Because in the not too distant future, all we’ll hear is how hot and miserable people are … in drought conditions to boot.

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Snow Images: Work and Play

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Those of you who live further north than I do are probably tired of the cold temperatures and snow, but here in Southwest Virginia, we are enjoying every snowflake.  Well, most of us are anyway.  We don’t get these big snow storms very often anymore and frankly, I miss them.  I also worry about climate change.  We’ve had too many “teasers” this year.  We hear about a storm for days ahead, schools and businesses close in anticipation and then … nothing!  This time though, it really happened!!

The following photos showcase some of the fun and the beauty from the last 48 hours.

The snow began at 1pm as predicted and I waited to finish with patients so we could close the office, allowing the staff to get home safely

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Radford University (RU), early on in the storm.  It turned out that we received the largest accumulation of snow in our area in over 18 years.

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Another view of RU, taken from the deck of a favorite local bar, one of only a few in our little city.

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Celebrating the snow at yet another local establishment.

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Do you see a theme developing?

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St Albans Hospital, built in 1916

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Before attacking the driveway

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Shoveling 18 – 20 inches of snow

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And the post-shoveling reward!

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I dug out my 30 year old snowshoes and enjoyed a brief, humorous attempt at using them.

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Early morning sunshadows on snow

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And just a little rust … ’cause who doesn’t love rust?

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Editorial Comment: Part of why I am able to enjoy the beauty of a snowstorm is because I did not lose power and I did not have to travel on the Interstate. What is it about all of the industries letting folks head home early at exactly the same time?  Combine that with all the drivers who insist that they are the only ones who know how to drive in the snow, yet they tailgate and speed?  We’ve all heard about Atlanta. It took one friend here in the NRV over 6 hours to travel 30 miles, and another friend in Raleigh parked under an overpass and hiked home.  Both of these situations were caused by the two variables previously mentioned. Ugh!

Other than that – I have loved every minute!!!  And I promise, it isn’t ALL about alcohol 🙂

 

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Amateur Mistake

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It was just another morning drive to work, and the sun on the field pulled me to stop.

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I was intent on capturing the light … and then I received the dreaded message “insufficient room” on the SD Card.

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As I was frantically deleting photos, the sun went behind a cloud and I never did capture the light as well as I would have liked.

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Amateur mistake!  Thank goodness, that’s exactly what I am!

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Grounded

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During the middle of our zero degree day, I literally ran outside in between patient appointments to capture the incredible blue sky.  As I turned around to go back inside, the colors of these leaves caught my eye.

Today … the sky just could not compare.

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Beautiful Zero

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Zero Degrees

So cold yet so beautiful

I don’t have the camera (yet!) to capture the frost in true macro, so I went about it another way, and lent beauty to the trees in the background at the same time.

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