First Snow. First Magic.

One For The Snow Gods

Going out on a limb and trusting the forecast, I honor the season's first snow storm with this photograph. I took it on March 1, 2004, at about 2 AM, during the last storm of the season. The winter of 2003 through 2004 was a positively stellar year for snow junkies like myself here on Cape Cod. I've been praying to the Snow Gods that this coming winter be a brutal one. To assure that my prayer's are answered, twice a week, I perform an extended ritual that includes a four hour snow dance, chants, incantations, offerings, burnings, and a human sacrifice. I'm optimistic that I'll be shoveling from now until April. That would be heaven here on earth. 

Snowy Lights

Amazing how beautiful something from Wal-Mart can be when it meets mother nature and a healthy dose of inspiration.

My Sanest Wish

I've got so many pictures involving snow, that f I blew each one up to an eight by then, I could wallpaper my bedroom with them and not have to use the same picture twice. This one was taken on the same night the previous photo titled "White Day After Christmas" was. Having fresh snow all over a house that's brightly lit with Christmas lights is how I wish my house could look every night of the year, from December first until well into March. A crazy dream, maybe. But compared to some of my other ideas, this one seems perfectly sane.

White Day After Christmas

The day after Christmas, 2004, we got a sweet snowstorm here in Falmouth that dropped over a foot of the white fluffy stuff overnight. If it had come just a few days earlier, we would have had the rare magic of a White Christmas. Never one to complain about snow, I was over-joyed to have a White Day After Christmas.