On Christmas Eve.. at midnight.

Here in Moravia it doesn't snow very much. So when snow does come, we all get pretty exited. Last Christmas eve, we were sitting in our living room, when somebody looked out the window, and saw that the wheelbarrow was a funny white color. We all went outside to investigate, and when it was confirmed that that white stuff really was snow, we kids ran around like lively little..... kids, and scraped snow of the ground to make snowballs and threw them at each other at the best moment (we had to wait till the best moment, because here in Moravia, even when it does snow, it doesn't snow much. There was about a 1/2 inch of snow on the ground... in the deepest places.) While everyone else ran around throwing snowballs, I decided to play with my new toy. I ran inside, grabbed the camera and hurried back out. But alas, I discovered that a camera does not work very well at night (it was midnight)... and I was in to much of a flurry to even think about different techniques I could use to take better pictures than I took :)
Here are some of them. They don't really portray the quiet, evening snowfall that one always imagines do they?

The hood of Grandpa + Grandma's RV. They spent Christmas with us that year














The best place to gather snow was were there was a hard surface. Roofs and a cement slab we had in our front yard worked well for this. This is our dog/well house roof. It has recentlly been 'scraped'.














Timothy has a snowball. (I think it was the biggest we got, but I am not sure.)














Heres a couple of other ones.
















Have you ever seen such a perfect snowball as this one?
Real hard packed too....














Just kidding. Thats a piece of hail from our 5 minuet hailstorm later in the year. :) Maybe I can tell you about that tommorow.

Tags: Photo, Snow, Christmas