Spring Photo a Day - #4

Well it would seem that Winter found out Spring had arrived and decided to put up a fight.  Here in Cambridge, MN we got about 8 inches of new snow last night and today.  It started as rain, turned to accumulating sleet and eventually over to snow, which meant we had fluffy snow blowing around and layered over heavy wet snow, over a layer of ice.  Fun stuff.

After spending a while trying (unsuccessfully) to get out of the driveway (and getting another vehicle stuck in the process trying to get my car out), I bagged it and worked from home.  It was a good thing, they didn't plow our road until after 1:00, and it was impassable without four wheel drive before then anyway.

Even thought there was sticky snow on all the trees and it was pretty outside, I didn't grab my camera until this evening.  I made a few photos of snowy pines with blue skies peeking through high clouds, but then as we were wrapping up dinner I noticed the blowing and drifting on the lake.  We have a nice big patio door looking out at the lake to the west and the drifts were catching the last low rays of the golden sunlight, and highlighting a nice texture too. 

I grabbed the camera and walked down towards the lake and got this:

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As much as I love winter I have to say I'm looking forward to seeing waves out the window instead of snowdrifts.

EXIF:  Canon 1D Mark III, EF 70-200 2.8L IS @ 200mm, f/8, ISO 400, 1/500

Exposure Date:  March 23, 2011