Our 10 Cents

"Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the Lotto."-Bill Watterson

26 October 2012. Approximately  20:07.

I left the noisy group of Rock Band players and went outside for just a moment, to see if any of the snow I'd seen falling earlier had actually landed on the ground. Everything I'd seen before had melted as soon as it came into contact with any earthbound objects.

The air was warmer than it had been earlier that night and there was a sort of eerie silence . And a thin layer of fluffy white covering everything I could see.

It's something I can't quite explain,that brief moment of beauty and intense silence, shattered by the rest of the people bursting through the doorway and my first snowball fight. It was as if I had stepped out of the door into a completely different world. For once I did not have my camera with me and I saw things through my natural eye as opposed to my mechanical lense.

When I woke up the next morning, the fluffy blanket had melted away considerably and patches of grass were showing through. It snowed for a few hours, tiny crystals floating from the solid grey sky, but the weather was too warm for much of it stick. Even though it wasn't nearly as beautiful as the night before, I did take a few blurry shots of our 10 cents worth of winter. Considering the fact that this is still Autumn, this is the first of many snow posts..

Tree in the backyard.

The view from my bedroom.

Snowy pine.

End of Autumn with the beginning of Winter.

Footprint.

Driveway.

Snowy berries in the neighbour's yard.

Blurry attempt at capturing the snow falling.