Friday, December 6, 2013

It's snow-time!!


Since late October, frost has been dropping by once in a while, icing our car as if it were a cake. So the first task before taking off for the day was scraping frost off the windshield. November saw this become almost a daily ritual, we were happy when it rained, for continuous drizzle meant frost did not get to settle down. The mercury has been dipping below 32°F or the proverbial C as we know it in India consistently for nearly a week now. Little surprise then that today morning we had our first brush with snow here in Portland. The morning began like any other, it was still dark outside when we woke up and went about our morning chores. And when there was enough light for us to see clearly out of our windows, we saw that it had been snowing lightly for a while. It looked like someone took a giant sieve and sifted rice flour from up above. The wind seemed to pick up some gust and we could soon see snow flurry all around. Snow flurry is equivalent to drizzle and is not the actual snowfall but snow in any form is snow :) While I had seen and played with snow before this, all of that was at tourist destinations. This was my first snow experience right at the doorstep. Below are a few clicks from my phone.





It was quite a sight to see rooftops, cars and streets sprinkled with snow. What you see in these images is the street view from our balcony and the parking outside our apartment.

   While at it, I tried capturing the flakes in the image and the gif images where you can see the snow flurry as it sprinkles down. 

14 comments:

  1. Wow Reshma ,these are lovely photos of the snow fall.

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  2. Nice pics Reshma...I guess lot more pics to come from you as the temp's are still going down.......:( Hope you will have a great time enjoying with Snow fall @ Portland.

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    1. Welcome to my blog lalitha :) Like every facet of nature, snowfall has its good and bad...

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  3. Pictures look beautiful. But living in snow is horrible, my personal opinion. We lived in Salt Lake City for a few years. Removing snow from the drive way to take the car out of the garage to go to office is hell.

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    1. You are right SG, snow looks good in pictures and it is fun when you play with it but getting by daily chores becomes a pain...Hopefully snow here in Portland is not that severe

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  4. woww awesome... beautiful pic too :)

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  5. Wow! This is so beautiful! Have a great time and enjoy this beauty of nature too :)

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    1. Thanks Shilpa :) Winter is fun in its own way:)

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  6. It wont snow in Delhi, but it will surely freeze :-P

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    1. Oh yes, Delhi does shiver and freeze every winter.

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  7. People who have not experienced the snow will always feel that they are missing something very beautiful, and that includes me too. We went to Sikkim in the month of November and really had the snow experience there. It was so much fun to walk on snow covered paths and mountains.
    I can also understand how irritating it would be if one has to face it everyday. When I tell my son I want to come to the US in winter, he says please don't for you would not enjoy it.
    I have to read your other blogs too, soon I will come back and read them
    The pictures are really beautiful.

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    1. Glad you got to have fun with snow. Your son is right Rama, thankfully we don't have a snow overdose unlike most of the east coast of US. We get a little bit of snow once in a while enough to satisfy our craving :P
      Take your time and drop by, I look forward to your thoughtful comments :)

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