snowflakes

[asakiyume]

The snowflakes were very beautiful this morning (you can click through to see them larger)

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[wayfaringwordhack]

Snow, glorious snow! I wish we had more of it while we were in France, but at least they have some in the mountains here in Lebanon. I think the family will go sledding with friends on Friday, but Ti'Loup would much prefer to go skiing, which he discovered last year (late in the season) and has been waiting impatiently for another opportunity ever since.

[asakiyume]

I had no idea that Lebanon got enough snow for sledding, let alone skiing! (Nor did I know you were back in Lebanon--I'm glad for your family reunion!)

[gingicat]

Gorgeous! Do you have a macro lens? My workaround is to use the telephoto lens for my SLR.

[asakiyume]

I don't! This is just my phone camera. I do have a little digital point-and-shoot camera which is good for getting things with high light and dark contrasts, which my phone can't do. But that camera is cumbersome to use, so mainly I just use the phone.

[cmcmck]

It was forecast here yesterday but never arrived.

So pretty.

[asakiyume]

It is pretty, isn't it!

You've had some snow this year, though, right? It seems like in general the UK has had more snow than in some years, no?

[cmcmck]

We've had two big falls this Winter.

It depends where you are in the UK- more snow in the north and west (and these days we are, of course, north and west).

[house_wren]

Great job on the photos! Thank you.

[asakiyume]

You're very welcome! And thank you!

[athenais]

Oh my gosh, how beautiful!

[asakiyume]

It was dizzying and exciting to see them all. Everywhere you looked! ... Definitely not always like that with snow.

[marycatelli]

Wow. What enormous snowflakes you have.

[asakiyume]

All the better to dazzle you, my dear! ;-)

[sovay]

The snowflakes were very beautiful this morning (you can click through to see them larger)

I love them on the knit!

[asakiyume]

Yes, those two are really paper-cut-out clear!

[mallorys_camera]

❤️❤️❤️

[asakiyume]

🥰

[light_of_summer]

Oo, nice!

Also, better thee than me—I really dislike being cold. 😏

May I ask what the background is, in the grayish photos? I.e., were you photographing the snowflakes as they were falling, or after they landed but before they merged with snow that fell earlier, or what?

I am quite ignorant about snow.

[asakiyume]

I hate being cold too! I would be very happy to live all my days on the banks of the Amazon! Or so I think... maybe after a few years I'd change my mind--who can say? ... But although I hate being cold, I've lived all my life in the Northeast, so I'm used to it.

The gray is background snow: I was trying to photograph snowflakes that were catching the light because those ones stood out. And when they've already landed, they're still, which makes them much easier subjects!

There are all different qualities of snow--last night's was fine like sand, but then this morning's had these beautiful individuated flakes--they stayed themselves even after they'd fallen. Probably if we get more warming and cooling, they'll melt and no longer this way, but for the morning, it was so pretty!

[light_of_summer]

Huh! I had no idea snowflakes could catch the light as individuals after landing on accumulated snow—thanks for showing us and explaining.

Very (ahem) cool! 😊

Where & when I grew up, snow that "stuck" happened about once every three years or so, never more than a couple of inches. I never saw a recognizable snowflake shape, there, and I've lived in even less snowy places, since.

Maybe we just didn't get recognizable individual snowflakes, there. One of my junior high science teachers, who was a volunteer Ski Patrol person at the closest ski facility (an hour's drive or so inland), described our region's snow as having a texture more like peanutbutter than powder. 😝

[asakiyume]

Peanut butter snow sounds *very* sticky!

[genarti]

Oh, these photos are beautiful!

(I'm so thrilled by the snow. Winter, glorious winter!!)

[asakiyume]

Hahaha, I am glad for your winter love. I do still love aspects of winter! Like sliding on ice and walking in a woods during or right after a snowfall. ... Even if really my heart is All Amazon All The Time.

[osprey_archer]

I LOVE the snowflakes on the knit.

[asakiyume]

What was so amazing was that literally anywhere you put your eyes, there were just perfect snowflakes lying on top of perfect snowflakes. But to actually capture them on camera, it sure did help to hava a background like the mitten.

[http://lotuslandfineart.com/velvetrope/]

I'm loving the snowflakes!!!!!

[asakiyume]

Thank you!! I'm so glad!

[lokifan]

Oh wow, incredible!

[asakiyume]

So fun to see snowflakes Doing The Thing--looking like snowflakes!