I had a hard time choosing between today’s images. Instead of making a choice I will present both.

When I woke up the day after Christmas the above was the view from my bed. My camera happened to be next to the bed so I just reached down and took this photograph while still lying down. The snow on the bottom of the window frame reminded me of how kids draw snow scenes. This may have been the first time I actually saw snow lining the bottom of a window in real life though.

Not content with just a view while horizontal, I also went up to the window to capture this second, unframed scene. A blue sky always seems a bit bluer when there is snow on the ground (plus the tinted window seemed to give everything on the other side of it a bit of a blueish hue).

Posted on January 5th, 2009 under nature. Tags: clouds, skywatch, snow, trees, utah, winter. Comments Off on View from my Utah bed

During our week in Utah, breaks in the snow were infrequent; breaks in the clouds were even more rare. When they did happen I broke out my camera to feast on the views. The structure in this photo is a chicken coop. The town was Kaysville.

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Posted on January 4th, 2009 under nature. Tags: clouds, skywatch, snow, utah, winter. Comments: 4

The Great Salt Lake (in the distance) from a Fruit Heights neighborhood… The “mountain” in the lake is Antelope Island State Park.

Posted on January 3rd, 2009 under places. Tags: clouds, houses, skywatch, snow, utah, water, winter. Comments: 3

There weren’t many blue skies while we were in Utah, but here was one of those few moments.

Posted on January 2nd, 2009 under places. Tags: clouds, skywatch, snow, utah, winter. Comments: 2

Posted on January 1st, 2009 under places. Tags: christmas, food, snow, utah, winter. Comments: 4

We lucked out on our drive to Utah. We experienced about the only two days of non-freezing, non-storming days of the past few weeks. It was very strange to go over Donner Summit at an elevation of almost 7,300 feet near the end of December and encounter lots of rain but no snow (even though there were several feet of snow on each side of the highway).

As soon as we arrived in Utah, though, the storms began again and the temperature dropped. When you aren’t driving in it, the snow can be rather beautiful. Today’s photograph is from the bottom of the dining room window. There is a black balcony that provides a nice contrast to the gnarly, snow-covered trees.

Posted on December 31st, 2008 under nature. Tags: snow, utah, winter. Comments: 2

Lower Duck Pond (2008)

All the tourists are long gone on an early, frozen morning at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The lower duck pond in Lithia Park is completely frozen over and snow has fallen overnight.

Posted on December 28th, 2008 under lithia park, only in ashland. Tags: lithia park, oregon shakespeare festival, snow, winter. Comments: 3

I’m still out of town so I’m borrowing another picture from the Ashland Daily Tidings.

Posted on December 27th, 2008 under nature, places. Tags: mountains, mt. ashland, snow. Comments: 2

When the temperature drops below zero (-20 Celsius) all life seems to disappear. At the upper duck pond in Lithia Park all the ducks were gone. Where to I do not know. People were also gone. I’ve never seen the park so deserted or so beautiful.

My camera wanted to run away and hide too. It took three attempts before the lens would come out of its retracted state. I don’t think the image stabilization feature was working, and I didn’t have a tripod. Nor could I risk setting the camera on the ground as it would probably be stuck there until spring. But I did get this shaky image of the frozen pond.

Posted on December 23rd, 2008 under lithia park. Tags: lithia park, nature, snow, winter. Comments: 3