Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Obligatory Snow Post

At around 12" deep, it's our 7th largest in one day, so here it is.
It's so futile to try depicting snow 'quantity' in photos. The camera takes off 6 inches, easily.
Rear wheel drive, and the city usually does not plow my street, so I'm a snow trudging pedestrian for a few days. Anyone feel like plowing 17th Street? Just for one block...

7 comments:

Carla said...

My Ranger looks like a 150.

Whoa! Where did that truck lingo come from?

Carla said...

Update:

wtf? 17th is plowed! This never happens. So I shovel a bit more at the end of my drive and head off...to Kildare, which is not. They shoveled the little bitty side streets, and not the main access street? Maybe it's an east-west thing.

In my little-snowed in world, this holds a surprising level of intrigue.

Anonymous said...

13th was plowed, too--it never gets touched.

Maybe you should get one of these:

http://www.wovel.com/product_photos/Horizonal_Sequence_lg.jpg

Hey, I thought it was cool.

Lis

Carla said...

Is it Richard Gere demonstrating that thing?

Nomi Lubin said...

It's so true that big snows never look as big in photos! Isn't it frustrating? I can still remember the first time I found this out as a child with my new Instamatic. So disappointing.

Though .. . just thinking about it now, it occurs to me that there must be angles and tricks that would equal things out so to speak. Secret guild knowledge.

Great pictures still.

I never lived on a street that didn't get plowed.

Carla said...

Maybe lie in the snow and shoot up? Those pretend deer, with their heads just above the snow, seem to work. This should be a photography contest.

Carla said...

lie in snow and shoot up with the camera...