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We woke up to this. It's snowing like crazy...huge, fat, fluffy flakes. I'd swear the forecast said rain when we went to bed last night! O.o

This made me SOOOO happy! Hooray for having the guts to shoot in RAW. I know. I should. But I never do. I looked at this one and thought, aww, shucks. Total waste. Didn't get the mountain, I guess the clouds were too thick down there. But, I decided to play with it a bit, and see if there was anything. AND, TA-DA!! Who knew that awesome lenticular cloud was lurking up there, too?! It ain't perfect, but I'm pretty darn pleased.

This was like five minutes of driving around. Sorry my windshield is so grubby, but I still liked how this turned out. Kinda fun!

Went out hoping for a glimpse of the Aurora Borealis. It was a faint hope, since it was a Thursday, and I really couldn't get far enough away into the dark sky...it would have been an hour drive, which I wouldn't have minded...except I had kids to get to school in the morning. So, I headed out to the darkest sky within twenty minutes of me. No northern lights, but it was still nice to be out in the dark and quiet (the freeway just makes for background noise...) and a full moon makes the landscape as bright as day. This is a very long exposure. I decided to just let it go while I waited and watched, so this one is 15 minutes. :) Lots and lots of star trails, more easily visible in the large view.

(apologies if there is weirdness in these...I can't tell if I'm editing them ok or not...my screen appears to be dying, so I'm getting weird effects from that.)