*GASP* I'm posting outside the lounge! There is air out here isn't there?! I've heard stories, y'all.....don't....bite...do you?
I was told I should post these pictures in here also to let you guys see them. While you all have been probably enjoying beautiful spring weather, flowers budding out, trees getting their first leaves on them, birds singing, perfect temps to be out working on the yard or in the gardens...mother nature has been giving us a reminder that winter is NOT over.The snow started Wednesday morning, slow at first then it started to pick up. And then it set in, pretty soon it started piling up - an inch, 6", 1ft", foot and a half, by Wednesday night we had well over 2ft at least. Then Thursday came around and it snowed harder and faster, by last night it was over 3ft deep. Finally, Friday - this morning the snow stopped and the skies cleared. When all was told there were many places with over 4ft of snow. NOT where it had drifted, thankfully out where we were the wind didn't blow as they were expecting it to which saved us....many places it did though. Drifts 10-12-more? feet tall. The official counts as far as snow totals was 32" in town (I live several miles outside of town higher in the mountains - we got much more than that) and several places up on the mountain were reporting 70 PLUS inches of snow as of 6PM last night.
As far as spring storms we've had in the past this one is far from the "worst", but this is the biggest storm we've had in a good long while.
Lot of people were caught a little unprepared, we've been listening to our police scanners since hasn't been much else to do the past few days and they're still digging and getting people out of places. Yesterday as they were reaching people they were pretty much telling them "come now or you'll be stuck here for a few days..."We got a couple more small systems the weather guys say are supposed to take their turn swinging through our area and dumping a few more inches of snow then we have to get ready to deal with all the water as this stuff melts!
Onto the pictures...
My kids yesterday....where they are in this picture the snow is easily 3ft deep. They're not standing on solid ground, there is a couple feet of snow that's holding them up!
Dad on our dozer as he was plowing road this morning so we could once again get in and out.
Kinda pretty don'tcha think? I live on a 1,000 acre ranch and this is the view this morning coming through our front gate.
Shot of one of our small irrigation ditches with the trees and such growing on the bank all covered in snow this morning.
This steel post is probably 5ft tall or so? This morning this was all that was sticking out above the snow. I always love shooting things like this because they're great at showing DOF, IMO I should have stopped down to increase the DOF a bit but I'm just being picky!
Snow can be extremely difficult to shoot, I've shot literally thousands of snow pictures and am now only beginning to really get a grasp at how to make them turn out. And still many, many, MANY of them don't turn out. I shoot in RAW mode so a few of them I can save in PP, but still - a lot of them I get on the computer and take one look at them and delete them as they're not what I'm looking for.
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And I'm jealous. I fished the Bighorn a little- by Fort Smith I think it was, and then down by Greybull. I love the open country where you can drive for miles and not see another soul, but plenty of eagles and antelope and who knows whatall else. I love the mountains around Cody the most though- that is magical country. My favorite place on earth is the river canyon at the end of the south fork road on the Shoshone river. It's kinda far from you but if you ever get over to that side it's worth the effort because there's so much wildlife there... it was like all the animals were concentrated in one amazing area.
, along with the bobcats and bears.
