Friday Instant Gratification

Here in Southwest Michigan we can go for weeks in the winter, without seeing the sun. This week we had two sunny days. It doesn’t matter how cold it is, a little sunshine always makes me happy. I tried to grab a few shots with my cell phone.

(Sometimes the cell phone photos tend to come out small, but I’ve found that if you either click on the photo itself, or refresh the webpage, the photos pop back to their normal size.)

We had a heavy, wet snow Thursday night, though most of the storm went north of us and moved eastward to become one of the 2 storm systems hitting the east coast. However, the day before the storm, we had blue skies.

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The Library where I work has this interesting grating along the top of the building, so I thought it would make an interesting focal point and still show off the beautiful blue sky.

Today, the day after the storm, has given us another afternoon of sunshine.  

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Leaving for work this morning: you can see patches of blue far off to the west.

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Looking across Bronson Park, the blue patches are getting larger.

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The late afternoon sky: only a few light fluffy clouds.

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The skylight inside the Library showing off a little prismatic rainbow as the sun shines in.

I wonder what tomorrow will bring us?

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Almost Wordless Wednesday

There isn’t much going on outside except snow, snow and more snow. So I hope you don’t mind if I show you some more snow photos. I apologize to my friends who live near-by or somewhere in the snowbelt and an added bonus trip down memory lane to my friends that now live in warmer climes.

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Friday’s Instant Gratification

Night and Day

When there’s snow on the ground, it reflects enough light to take photos at night (with a little help editing). I’m in experimental mode with my cell phone camera so I went out last Saturday around 11pm to take some photos. Then I went out the next morning to take some more shots at approximately the same places.

wpid-2013-01-26_00-00-04_201.jpg  night

wpid-2013-01-26_09-09-27_855.jpg   day

wpid-IMG_20130201_083459.jpg  night

wpid-2013-01-26_09-12-34_427.jpg  day

wpid-IMG_20130201_084133.jpg  night

 
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wpid-IMG_20130201_085137.jpg  night

wpid-2013-01-26_09-14-08_624.jpg  day

image  night

wpid-IMG_20130201_084716.jpg  day

And a few more, just for fun.

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snow depth record keeping:

wpid-IMG_20130121_140045.jpg January 21, 2013

 
image  January 26, 2013

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