The unimaginable happened over the weekend. It snowed in Columbia. Not just a little snow, I think I approximated 6″ were on the roof of my car. My professor asked our class to post some of our pictures from the snow. I didn’t take my digital slr out in the snow, which was probably a good idea, since I ended up getting in a snowball fight. I would have been pretty upset if something happened to my camera. I did get to take some pictures with my point and shoot Lumix though. None of them turned out great as far as professional photos would go, but I did capture some idea of how much snow there was. Most of the pictures I took were at night, which made photographing the snow a little more difficult. I had gotten off work right before it started snowing hard, so by the time it was pretty deep on the ground it was 10 p.m. or so.
I usually think that I’m one of those people that don’t get all excited about the idea of snow being forecast on the news. I always think it’s strange how everyone suddenly has to run out and buy milk and bread because they think snow might fall. I guess after living in South Carolina for 12 years, one becomes somewhat skeptical of snow showing up whenever it’s predicted in the weather report. I found myself pretty excited though, about this snowfall. I had a great time playing in it, making a snowman, having a snowball fight, and just enjoying the look of it being white everywhere. I guess I hadn’t seen real significant snow for a while, and forgot how pretty it made everything.
© Selina Westerwelle 2010
This image is from pretty early on in the night, probably around 9:30 pm. It’s the parking lot in front of the apartment building. You can see that the snow is still coming down in the glare of the street lamp.
© Selina Westerwelle 2010
© Selina Westerwelle 2010
The first image shows how much snow fell within a 2 hour period or so. The pile of snow on the top of the side mirror of my car, is a pretty clear indicator of how much snow came down within such a short amount of time.
The second one is of the snowman we built before the snow got too slushy. It had already started melting a little while we were outside playing in it. But since it was so much in such a little time, much of it stayed on the ground for a while. The parking lot and streets cleared pretty quickly though. Our snowman was looking pretty ratty the next day in the sun, and another day after that, only a small pile of pine-straw filled snow remained. It was cool while it lasted though.
And I must admit, there is still a snowball or two in the freezer.
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