First Snow

For the second time in two years, our first snow fell on October 28. That first fall was remarkable in 2018, for the snow was fairly thick, and there was still colour in the trees in the park. It was quite a wonderful combination.

The first snow of this year wasn't up to these standards. Aside from the fact that there is much less autumn colour remaining, there was also less snow, and it didn't last very long either.

I took a picture from the window and was going to leave it at that, but when I went downstairs to give Lacey her morning tuna, I decide to take the camera out for a few quickies.

When I had cut back the echinacea plants, there were four flowers still looking good, so I left them. To get a soft background in these macro photos, I opened my aperture as wide as it would go, but that reduced the amount of the image that was in focus. In both photos, you can see one or two petals in focus while the rest aren't. This doesn't bother me much in these images, but I just point it out. It would be best it it were the front petal in focus, but I don't bend well to fine tune these low photos.

In this next image of leaves in our silk lilac trees is focussed a little better with the emphasis on the main leaf. The background leaves are far enough away to provide a very soft and colourful background.

I went across the street to check out the neighbour's garden. Since the resulting photo was even less well focussed than others, I went with the flow and processed it with a fine art feel. At least that is what I tried to do.

The snow left us by mid-morning, but if history is any sort of predictor, it will likely come to stay by the end of this month. And then it will remain until March or even later.