Another photo from my December in Utah today… Never heard of Lake Bonneville? Most people probably haven’t, but don’t feel bad. It is a prehistoric lake. What remains is now called the Great Salt Lake, which you have probably heard of.

The day after I took this photo I went on another walk in the same general area. The houses in that picture would have been under water back when Lake Bonneville was in its heyday. The walk was beautiful but extremely cold.

Posted on February 4th, 2011 under outside of ashland. Tags: snow, sunset, utah. Comments Off on A walk along the edge of Lake Bonneville

I hope this house in Ashland doesn’t rely solely on its solar panels for energy as the cells haven’t been generating much lately.

Posted on January 8th, 2011 under only in ashland. Tags: snow, winter. Comments Off on Snowy solar panels

On New Year’s Day I climbed up on the roof to enjoy a 360 degree panorama of the mountains surrounding town. This was the view to the northeast. Grizzly Peak is snow capped for much of the winter.

Posted on January 7th, 2011 under only in ashland. Tags: grizzly peak, skywatch, snow, winter. Comments: 2

Normally, when you take a picture from your car, it doesn’t come out too good. Usually the photo is blurry, not well framed, and/or looking through dirty glass.

I took today’s photo from the fast lane, heading north, on I-5 just south of the Oregon/California border, about 15 miles south of Ashland. A dangerous shot to take from the driver’s seat, no? Actually no. We were parked in the fast lane! I didn’t even have the engine running, and my window was rolled down despite the temperature.

Cars and trucks were chaining up to head over the pass. We didn’t move from this position in the fast lane for over 15 minutes. I think the driver of the truck in this pic was taking his chains off after making it over the Siskiyou Summit coming from Oregon.

Posted on December 31st, 2010 under places. Tags: clouds, snow. Comments: 2

I may take a little side trip to Finland this summer while working in Denmark. In the middle of a blizzard, we ended up with a premature visit of sorts a couple nights ago. This was our hotel on our way home to Ashland from Utah.

The Finlandia Motel sign said “Vacancy” on our way in. We took the last room they had on this unplanned stop.

Posted on December 30th, 2010 under outside of ashland. Tags: california, signs, snow. Comments Off on Finlandia Motel – Mt. Shasta City, California

We were planning on arriving home, after nine days in Utah, last night. Snow had other plans for us. We hit a storm just past Susanville, California and ended up getting a room in Mt. Shasta instead.

This morning we headed out of Mt. Shasta on I-5 going north. We were delayed about an hour by chain requirements at the Siskyou Summit on the California/Oregon border.

When we finally arrived back in Ashland, more than 12 hours later than planned, we found our property hadn’t been deserted after all. A family of deer had taken up residence on our back lawn and have not budged even though several hours have passed.

Posted on December 29th, 2010 under nature, only in ashland. Tags: deer, snow, wildlife, winter. Comments Off on Back Home

I have been in Utah for Christmas five or six times in my life. I think this was the first that wasn’t a White Christmas. However, the day after Christmas, several inches of snow fell in the afternoon. I went on a little hike up the mountain side before the sun went down in order to take this photo of Fruit Heights, with Kaysville (and maybe a little of Farmington to the left) in the background.

Posted on December 27th, 2010 under outside of ashland, places. Tags: night photography, snow, utah, winter. Comments: 1

Continuing down I-5, the wind was blowing rather fiercely. So when I got closer to Mt. Shasta, I pulled over to take an up-close photo of the snow that was gusting off the top of the mountain.

Posted on December 18th, 2010 under nature, outside of ashland, places. Tags: california, mt. shasta, snow, winter. Comments: 1

Winter is supposed to come after Fall, but the snow gods and my Japanese Maple didn’t get the memo this year. We normally only get a snow or two that sticks per winter. Usually that doesn’t happen until January or February at the earliest. Last week we received several inches of the white stuff. As soon as the snow finished falling, the maple decided it was time to drop all of its red and mostly orange leaves creating this scene, one we haven’t witnessed before.

Posted on November 29th, 2010 under nature. Tags: autumn, snow, trees, winter. Comments: 2