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Thursday, January 26. 2023

Vermont

From a friend who is spending the week skiing.


Posted by Bird Dog at 07:00 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Yup. That's pretty much what everything looks like, or looked like last week until we got a blast of warm weather today. In January in Vermont, 'warm' means anything over about 20ºF, but still not quite shorts weather for us yet.

It's 35º at the moment so all that beautiful snow is turning to slush which will freeze up and turn the roads into a hellscape as soon as the temperatures drop tonight. Drive safely, tourists.
#1 VT Farmer on 2023-01-26 10:27 (Reply)
Looks like Hell on Earth to me.
#2 jack walter on 2023-01-26 11:35 (Reply)
Kinda looks like that here. We got 14" here in south central Nebraska a week or more ago and not much has melted. More snow and colder weather is on the way.

Shaping up to be the hardest winter in years.
#3 feeblemind on 2023-01-26 13:36 (Reply)
I was just getting ready to say that a #81B warming filter would have produced a better rendering of that scene, but then I remembered that (almost) no one uses film any more.

But, filters also work on digital cameras, and the results are generally better than trying to "fix it in post" (i.e. using editing software).

Wouldn't want to spend the night there, though...
#4 Hairless Joe on 2023-01-26 19:07 (Reply)
That pretty much encapsulates a Westerner's opinion of Eastern skiing - ice.
#5 Whitehall on 2023-01-29 07:55 (Reply)

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