DAY 40: A NOCTURNAL ADVENTURE

DAY  40: A NOCTURNAL ADVENTURE

Last night (or, rather, after midnight this morning), I decided to go on an adventure. I told my husband I wanted to go out again and take pictures of snow scenes around town while the snow was still fresh and falling. He just wasn’t up to it - thought it was too late and I guess he didn’t think I was as serious as I was and he fell asleep.

So……I slipped on some boots, got my camera and went without him!

There were a few people out and about, but not many. Driving down East Main, I saw Ryder’s Cemetery. I wondered what it would look like under a blanket of snow…and I wondered if anyone had ever seen that cemetery in the snow…so I eased my way up the hill.

It was the quietest place EVER – it was as if everyone there was tucked in for the night and sharing a big white blanket. It felt very ethereal.

A technical lesson I’ve learned is that I really must consider some sort of tripod when taking pictures at night. Although the snow lit up the landscape a lot, it was still too dark to get good photographs without a flash and my pictures weren’t very clear due to my moving the camera while the shutter was still open.

But despite that, I loved my nocturnal adventure.

I did feel a little bad, though, when I got home and my cat was peering out the door waiting for me…and Stephen was awake and also waiting.

Maybe it is a little odd or weird, but I don’t care. The snow and all its possibilities excited me and I acted on that. A girl needs a spontaneous adventure every now and then!

Comments

[Lantern Bearer]

What a perfectly cold scene. In Tampa Bay we are having miserable cold but no snow.

My last snow in KY was the Blizzard of 77/78. I abandoned the snow belt after that one.

My last snow trip to KY was to attend a funeral in Southgate in 2002 or so.