This post was previously published here on the Electronic Media class blog, EC Reporter.
November 27, 2014 began the fury of winter weather pictures in my camera roll. Thanksgiving of all days it snowed in New Hampshire, leaving the state covered in snow and without power. At least it looked pretty. In the calm after the storm while my parents decided what to do for Thanksgiving, I walked around my yard totally in awe.
I took this one from my bedroom window when I first woke up. My bed was still in front of the window at this point, so as soon as I woke up I pulled back the shades to see the world covered in snow. The sun had just come up so the clouds still looked pink.
The swing set in my backyard has always been one of my favorite things to take photograph covered in snow. There’s so much surface area for snow to land on. I love the huge pine trees in the back, towering over everything else.
You wouldn’t know it, but that saggy structure is our blueberry patch. I took this picture before we shook the snow off of the mesh so that it didn’t break and ruin the bushes. That’s happened before.
The trees were so weighed down with snow and ice. The branches on the bush on the left never touch the ground, but thanks to the snow they did today. We lost a lot of branches in that storm.
I half expected to see someone on the street because it was plowed so clean. There was no one to be seen up and down the street. My neighbors weren’t even out shoveling. Standing here, I could hear the hum of everyone’s generators.
Abbi Matheson 