Snow is prettiest right after it falls. Once it’s on the ground for a few days, it immediately starts getting dirtied up with life and loses that pristine whiteness. But, right after a storm? It is incredibly beautiful.
My favorite winter scene is once the storm has stopped leaving behind a snow covered landscape. When every part of nature is draped in white it’s magical. I especially love seeing trees turned completely white by the clinging snow.
Eventually the sun melts the snow from the trees and, while you still have the snow covered ground, the rest of the landscape loses just a little bit of the magic.
Do you have a favorite winter scene?
I’m participating in a Blogging A-Z Challenge for April 2018. I will be posting new content every day this month except most Sundays. Each post is associated with a letter of the alphabet, starting with A and ending with Z. My theme for the challenge is Winters in Maine. To read more of my A to Z posts, click HERE.
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BBBRRRRRRRR but beautiful.
Dena
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It is cold but so magical too.
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So much snow. It doesnt look much different here in winter to summer except it’s cooler.
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I figure if we have to have the cold at least the snow makes everything pretty.
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I love icicles!😊
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Me too! One year I found some that had frozen almost sideways. It must have been windy the day they froze.
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I love snow, especially when it covers up all the crap out in the back garden. We had so much of it this year, i actually got sick of it. The whole country ground to a halt and there were killings in the supermarket over loaves of bred and milk…roll on sunshine is all I’m saying 😉
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Why is it always loaves of bred and milk that people go for? It happens here too! Our last storm I grabbed some Gelato at the store instead. If I was going to be snowed inside, I wanted something delicious.
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I still have bread in my freezer since the storm😩😩 crazy!!
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*bread* :p
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“Snow gets dirtied up with life”, haha, nicely put 😉
Like you I like snow covered branches, especially if it’s a conifer aka Christmas Tree. So pretty!
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Yes, snow covered Christmas Trees are the best!
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I agree – snow is prettiest after the fall when it perches on every surface available to it – the branches, stones, rooftops – it renders it all into such a wonderufl wonderland. I feasted my eyes on this pics Karen- superb! 🙂
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It does turn the landscape into something even more beautiful.
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Such a beautiful time – right after a snow fall! Love your photos – the snow piled on each branch speaks to the calm in the air.
My favorite for photographing (but not walking or driving) is right after an ice storm. The icicles hanging from branches are amazing, especially if the sun is shining. Thankfully, it has been many years since I experienced any of this but I can still see the beauty.
Emily In Ecuador
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Ice storms are amazingly beautiful and much better enjoyed from the safety of inside.
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Such breathtaking photographs. I live in a tropical region … So I am in lush green forests when I travel.
https://lonelycanopyblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/25/waiting-at-bikaner-house-delhi/
A memorable snow fall was while trekking in the Himalayas and seeing the white landscape outside my tent and the gleaming peaks further away.
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Tropical regions are beautiful too. Your trip to the Himalayas sounds fun.
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My favorite winter scene is right after an ice storm. I’m not a fan of ice storms in general, but that is the one thing they’ve got going for them. It’s like a fairyland. Melanie’s Stories
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Yes, no fun traveling in them but so beautiful to look at.
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Love the photos. I can hear the padded silence the snow creates.
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It really does evoke a lovely silence.
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I never mind if it snows a lot as long as melts soon afterward. Those crusty mounds of snow and accumulated filth are the worst, especially in the city.
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That’s one of the best things about April storms. They melt almost as soon as they arrive.
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I took some beautiful, Christmas-y pictures of Choppy in the snow – ones like these, with the snow hanging on the branches in a way that makes you wish it was winter every day.
Unfortunately, I took said pictures last Wednesday, when it should have been warmish and not snowy.
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Don’t lose hope. We’re almost into May!
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I totally agree. There is just nothing quite as beautiful. Here is where I admit I love snow! Good thing I live where I live! 😉
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These are the scenes that make you fall in love with snow.
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That is so true about snow – so pretty at the outset, then it gets gross and dinghy the longer it sits.
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Sadly, it doesn’t look as lovely after sitting around for awhile. Fortunately, there’s usually another storm around the corner to give it a nice refresh.
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I do love the winter wonderlands… but always worry about losing power. My husband was stationed at Loring AFB in 1970. He said it was the coldest place he ever was at.
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Loring AFB was quite far up in northern Maine. I bet it was cold!
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He remembers discovering fields after snow went down – he’d never even known they were there during the winter! In base they mostly traveled in underground tunnels as it was so cold – and wearing their fur parkas all the time
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