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A big snow is a delight to every Yankee who has a camera. Big snow makes everything new. An ordinary snowfall is not as inspiring. Here's the road I live on:

Just kidding re the above. My friend Nathan sent this pic of Central Park yesterday. I'd guess that was his Leica, not his cell phone:

NYC is a wonderland in a good snow. Our buddy Kab sent these to me from NYC too:

A relative sent in this pic of his house in CT. That's a typical, in-town New England house. It provides shelter. Your heart and soul provide the charm and warmth:

Posted by Bird Dog in Our Essays, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 15:26 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (0)

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So if that's not your road in the first pic, what road is it? At least give us a state...

#1 weaver on 2011-01-28 17:06 (Reply)

The only places I've been with snow piled that high are in the Rocky Mountains.

#2 Ron Snyder on 2011-01-28 17:34 (Reply)

I've seen a road through snow like that, some years ago, in Northern Montana, about 100 miles East of Great Falls. Quite a sight when you're driving through it. They cut the road clear with a snow blower, and leave a ramp up at the end with a turnaround, so snowmobiles can leave the end of the road and continue on.

#3 Ol' Karl on 2011-01-28 17:37 (Reply)

Looks like some streets in Chicago during the January 1979 blizzards.

I drove through a pass up in Ouray Colorado while 4wheeling one year like that. The county had JUST opened the road a few days before.... only the passage was just one bulldozer blade wide.

#4 JoeC on 2011-01-28 17:56 (Reply)

Wow! I'm impressed and nostalgic for when I lived near Rochester, NY. Driving in snow tunnels, sigh!

#5 Celestial on 2011-01-28 18:16 (Reply)

But where's all the people?

Hardly any footprints......

#6 mitchel44 on 2011-01-28 18:16 (Reply)

The Central Park pic wasn't taken on a Leica - it was an iPhone 4 @ 9:41:04 AM on 1/27/11, software version 4.2.1 using sRGB (standard RGB color space) Color Mode 1.

That is a great image, but the iPhone produces some really good images.

Amazing what you can do with Photoshop huh? :>)

#7 Tom Francis on 2011-01-28 18:25 (Reply)

No offense intended towards your relatives, but it seems to me the charm-n-warmth quotient would be greatly improved by the removal of the friendly municipal signs from the columns of the porch.
You know, from the bones, that was a beautiful house once. A series of individual decisions have turned it into what it is now.

I sometimes wonder as I wander around the Berkshires, that the market value of some of the Victorian houses I see in Adams and Pittsfield would increase by an order of magnitude if I could somehow transport them to Stockbridge.

#8 Douglas2 on 2011-01-28 21:08 (Reply)

The pictures a stunningly beautiful. I am glad they are pictures, because I am freezing to death just looking at them.

#9 Cilla Mitchell, Galveston Texas (Link) on 2011-01-29 06:29 (Reply)

I think that first picture could be for real. There have been snows like that near Adams, NY and Fulton, NY. Lake effect snow, combined with wind, can build drifts to the tops of the telephone poles.

#10 concrete on 2011-01-29 09:26 (Reply)

I believe that the first picture is from Japan, there is a video http://tinyurl.com/4d6dkh7

#11 chuck on 2011-01-29 12:22 (Reply)

Inspiring to every YANKEE with a camera? Having grown up in Ohio, and moving all over, I have for the past 15 years watched the whining and non-stop complaining over any amount of snow from my perch 35 miles west of Boston.

My biggest question is how on earth did the ancestors of these present day babies, millions of them, win a revolution? It is mind numbing how bad the New England people act when there is snow, ice, or freezing rain. More than once schools were canceled and it didn't snow. People pack the grocery stores, buy yet another shovel, salt, and every other nonsense item. This entire region is packed with folks who are babies, who complain too much, and just don't live in the real world. Glad it wasn't our generation that founded the country.

Anytime anyone mentions Yankee and Snow I want to laugh. And anyone up here that laughed at the folks down South earlier in the month, keep quiet. The northeastern region folds up and hides with very, very little weather change.

#12 Joe Luke on 2011-01-29 20:43 (Reply)

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