A few photographs from walking on the trail next to the Colorado River (in Austin, Texas, also known as Lady Bird Lake). And yes, it was a cold and rainy day (just a little bit rainy, but definitely grey).
Along the Colorado River
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One Cold and Rainy Morning (3)
I managed to find some color on our photo walk on the cold and rainy morning.
One Cold and Rainy Morning (1)
One cold and rainy morning in Austin, Texas.
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Follow the yellow bridge road. Ha ha. (It was funny while I was photographing the bridge. Yes, it was.)
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Different trestle than the one in the first photo.
Looks Like Snow
I was wandering around The Triangle complex just before meeting a friend for lunch when I came around a corner and saw a lot of white stuff on the ground. From a distance, it looked like snow.
It wasn’t snow, but protective covering for the plants as we’ve had a couple of nights with the temperatures in the teens. All I can say is that is a lot of protective covering. I wonder where they buy it and where they store it.
A Rare and Early Snow
Yes, it snowed in central and south Texas (Thursday evening, 07 December 2017). This is cause for excitement — and alarm — as we are definitely not used to snow.
It was not a blizzard, however. I had my camera shutter speed set pretty slow because of the low light conditions and it gave the snow a blurry effect.
This is how it looked Friday morning. This is an Italian Stone Pine tree burdened under 3-4 inches of snow.
Hubby’s tractor.
The snow itself was a surprise, but it lead to a few surprising discoveries. This deer track, for instance. When I came outside in the morning, I expected to see a smooth blanket of snow. That’s not what was waiting for me. There was plenty of snow, and lots of it smooth, but there were a lot of deer tracks, too. It looked like one deer had been roaming around our front yard, coming right up to our front porch. Our big yard has a 4-foot fence around it but obviously that is nothing to a deer.
I followed the deer tracks and they went all around the house and fenced dog yard. The dog yard has a 6-foot fence around it. And that was the next surprise: deer tracks in the dog yard, as well. Deer agility: 4-foot fence and 6-foot fence. Easy in, easy out, it seems.
We have lived here almost 20 years and until this snow we didn’t know deer were coming into our yards. I’m just glad the deer didn’t ring our doorbell in the middle of the night and run away, snickering.
It's a long story ... 