Saturday blizzard snaps

8:00 am: Here's some snaps - its so rough outside even the snow and ice is trying to get in. I'll add more snaps to this album in real-time as the day goes on.

5:30 pm: Snaps below include my Subaru before the "Big Dig" that lasted 90 minutes. By 5 pm the skys had cleared to blue and were "smiling at me," as the tune goes. Total snow accumulation in the metro Baltimore-Washington DC area ranged from 18-36 inches in this 2-day storm. We have 30 inches where these pics were taken.

Snow beauty (pix)

It snowed last night leaving whiteness everywhere. Pics were taken from my balcony early this morning.

"..what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life" a poem from Mary Oliver

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean—
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life
- Mary Oliver, The Summer Day

Its 14 degrees with a wind chill of -12 outside of my window. I am writing-out my 2010 resolutions and attempting to open to the possible in my "one wild and precious" year.

Big Snow

It was official, a "blizzard warning" yesterday here in Germantown MD where 22 inches fell. It snowed at least 20 hours without stop. I was out early this morning to clean off my car (shown, kind of) and plan to venture out today to take more snaps. I'll post them here in real time as I take them using Posterous's nifty iPhone app PicPosterous.

Most of the photos were taken on the way to or at Black Hill Regional Park, 10 minutes from home. Can I say where the satellite dishes are? Probably but I'm not sure.There were no "No Trespassing" or "Do Not Take Photos" signs or checkpoints so I snapped a few.

Snow Outing (pics)

1 sunrise from home; 2 mother-of-all birding scopes with camera affixed (a mature bald eagle sat in the top of dead tree out of view - I see it there fairly often - unfortunately the camera on my iPhone can't zoom it in); 3 tree on sky; 4 seedless brown plant; 5 icicles; 6 bluebird house. Taken with an iPhone.

Fire Sky Pics

All photos taken at home. Can anyone identify the third photo?

Sent from Ron's iPhone