Snowbow

 

Here are some pretty winter scape pictures from the last couple of weeks.  I have not been taking many dog walk pictures because at this time of year it gets dark so early that by the time I get back from skiing I'm generally walking the dogs in the dark.  

Lately Kodiak has been stuck in a 'stalled' low.  It's been raining every day in town and snowing on the mountain.  So brown in town and white snow Heaven on Pyramid.  We are getting a lot of heavy and wet new snow on high - on the top of Pyramid I think we already have as much snow as we got all last winter!  Of course last winter was the worst snow year ever (on the mountain tops but not in town).  last year all our storms were cold and the snow blew off the mountain tops.  

And yes, the top picture is a snow bow.  It was snowing lightly and cold and the sun was shining, and suddenly there was this most spectacular snow bow.  Maybe rime moisture in the air?  In anycase, it was too big of a rainbow to capture with just one picture.  This picture is actually 2 rows of 4 vertically stacked pictures all stitched together into one panoramic.  I just wish I had extended it a little bit further to the right and caught the whole top of Pyramid.  But maybe that would have made the rainbow seem less impressive.

Patrick