It seems like every time it snows, I run outside my office building and take a picture of this poor tree. This is from mid-fall before all the leaves dropped. It doesn’t show up all that well in the pictures, but it was snowing pretty hard.
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The Salt Lake Valley is famous (or maybe it’s infamous) for its winter inversions and horrible air quality. This year has been a bad one for bad air days. If you can get out of the valley and up into the mountains, the air is fresh and clear and the temperatures are usually a bit warmer too (an interesting paradox). I was up in the foothills on the east side of the valley a few nights ago and captured this amazing sunset. As you can see, the valley is dark and dank with inversion, but it can create beauty when the sun hits the Oquirrh Mountains.
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On Tuesday, Salt Lake City was hit with the first big snowstorm of the season. We received about three inches of fresh powder in the valley, and the ski resorts are bursting with joy over the dump in the mountains. Here, it takes a fall of at least 1-1/2 feet before the city shuts down, so it was a bit dicey getting home.
IN A NEW POST CREATED FOR THIS CHALLENGE, SHARE A PHOTO THAT SHOWS WHAT WINTER IS FOR YOU.
So, what does winter chill feel like to you? I know that some readers are gearing up for summer and thoughts of winter are probably the last thing on your mind. And others never see a flake of snow all year. Get creative. Have fun with it. If your “winter” consists of a slight dip in the temperature, think kindly on us poor souls who will be buried under mounds of the white stuff for the next six months.
Everyone is welcome to participate, even if your blog isn’t about photography.
Here’s how it works:
1. Each week, I’ll come up with a theme and post a photo that I think fits. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the following Thursday, when the next photo theme will be announced.
2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “A Photo a Week Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday″ tag.
3. Follow nancy merrill photography so that you don’t miss out on weekly challenge announcements.
(Yes, I stole these rules from The Daily Post Photo Challenge. I hope they don’t mind.)
It’s been a crazy summer in Utah. June, July, and the beginning of August had almost no rain to speak of, and suddenly mid-way through August, we hit monsoon season. And what a wet season it has been. This past week, you’d never believe this area is technically a desert.
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