Got snow?

dyamond, I reckon I'd be there if I had the price of a plane ticket. But I'd guess I'd have to bring my own shoe box?

 

welcome to the frozen fields of Iowa

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v79/Burning_Monkey/sundog1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v79/Burning_Monkey/drift.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v79/Burning_Monkey/pine_tree.jpg

 

Nice shots! Our snow looks a lot like yours.

 

Hoping this will warm you up a tad:

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g266/paulthomasno6/0116sml.jpg

And it's not the snow that bends the trees in Western Australia, it's the winds.

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g266/paulthomasno6/0112sml.jpg

 

Halo, that's the Pinnacles, about 150 miles north of Perth.
http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen5/f52-australia-pinnacles.html
The tree is also from the same region. There is a stretch of land south of Geraldton which is quite flat, so all the trees are like this. Actually, there are spots around Perth where you can find trees which sport a tilt. Nothing quite like this, though.
These are both my own photos. I probably have them at a res good enough for a wallpaper shot, somewhere in the collection. I'll start hunting.

 

These photos are about 20 years old. When I moved from Melbourne to Perth I spent a week in Geraldton visiting the Pinnacles and other local scenic spots. Good thing I did too, because I've never found the time to get back there since.
I went through the Pinnacles on the local tour bus in the late afternoon. We had the area all to ourselves and it was utterly quiet, not even birds chirping. The seamen of 300-400 years ago who sailed down the western coast of Australia couldn't land in this area but I'm told that one of them reported seeing what he thought was the ruins of a city - if so, he was undoubtedly talking about the Pinnacles. With the sky clouded over, except for a clear strip along the horizon that let through the setting sun, the place had a real Sodom and Gomorrah - or Dresden or Hiroshima - feel about it.
I've found the disk and there are a few other shots from the Pinnacles on it. I'll post a few in low res on a new thread and maybe you can advise me the easiest way to deliver the bigger versions.

 

I am just reading some stuff on the news/weather and were suppose to be getting anywhere form 6-10 inches from Sunday - Monday night. Hopefully we get that much.

 

I see you people in the N.E. are getting another 16" or so of global warming!

I will, with all sincerity, say, better there than here!:-D:-D:wave

 

thanks

I keep forgetting to grab my camera to take some pictures of the snow drift I drive through every day on my way to work. It's over 8 feet tall on one side of the road and around 5 feet or so on the low side.

maybe this weekend I will remember to grab the camera and try to brave the wind for some landscape shots.

 

Yeah first snowfall here since 2002 of more then 20 inches were up o 47 inches in just the past 3 weeks and now there's a wind advisory in effect of 60Mph to make some friendly snowdrifts can not wait for spring

 

Four inches of the white stuff again tonight.

 

Still windy today but second day of sunshine after all that crap

 

Finally remembered to take some photos of the drifts I drive though on my way to work. Not the greatest photos since they are on my phone, but they illustrate the point. :-D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v79/Burning_Monkey/snowdrift_h.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v79/Burning_Monkey/snowdrift_l.jpg

and this is what I do while I wait the 3 days for the plow to come by and do the highways;
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v79/Burning_Monkey/flowers.jpg

 

dude we're gettin blasted with snow right now

 

Boring weather here. It's been warmer than usual since New Year's. What snow we had is gone. The ski hill isn't great, but better than Cypress Mtn, if you know what I mean.
However, lack of snow equals great deals on ski equipment.

 

We're having some gorgeous weather for a change. Finally see the yard again. Time to get out and do the daily biking again.