Snow at Home, Snow in The Trinity Alps, Lucy, Ricky, Alycia, Hillary . . .

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I just finished uploading new pictures and most of them are of our latest snow falls at home and views from town of the Trinity Alps. Even only got about 1.5 inches out of 2 snowfalls, but the temps have been staying down in the low 20's and I can't even shovel it off our deck!! Today we saw a high of 31º, so maybe it will climb up a bit more on Sunday so I can drive the car back up to the house again. As I need to keep Kathy from trying to walked down to where the car is in the middle of our steep driveway, before Monday the 24th, so we can drive down to Redding for our Annual Christmas 'sleepover' with all the kids, eh!! Think some very warm thoughts for us, ok!! ;-))

Later, 'Viper'

Alycia, Icy & Frosty Days, Red Head Woodpecker, 60 Calendar Pictures, Raven, Clouds . . . .

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It's been very cold up here in our mountains, but this morning it was only 19º when I got up about 7:30 am!! I had to be in town before 9 am and up here at our elevation of about 2,800' it was sunny and beautiful. But town which is only 2,000' had a heavy blanket of fog and when I drove down the 3 miles to Main Street, like everything was WHITE with Frost!! So of course I had to grab a few shots before heading home, right!! ;-)) Those are my 'FrostyMorning' pictures.

Also, I wanted to share all the pretty pictures on our NEW 2008 Calendars that Kathy got for only $1 each. I personally use 2 calendars in my office so I can view the present & next months at the same time. So I have the 'FlowersInBloom' & 'Hummingbirds' in my office, and the 'PaintedDays' in the 2nd bathroom which is right by my office. Kathy will have the 'GreekIsles' & 'Lighthouses' to put in one of the other rooms. But all the pictures I like so I'm going to 'cut' out all of the 60 pictures from these 'covers' and add them to my computer's 'background changer', so they will keep popping up automatically and I'll get to view them daily there too!!

The 'RedHeadWoodpecker' was up a tree about 20' and making such a racket pecking against the heavy bark looking for bugs or worms, while I was trying to get some scenery shots of the clouds about a mile from home. So I kept waiting for him to come around to my side and then I grabbed a few shots. A couple were almost totally black because I have my flash set on 'automatic' and it didn't go off. So I tried my best to brighten the shot without totally destroying it at the same time. Hope you enjoy him and all the other shots, eh!! And of course I just had to share my Great Grand Daughter Alycia's picture too!! ;-)))

Later, 'Viper'

Fresh Snow, Weaverville, Trinity Alps, Redding, Dirt Bike & Road Racer too

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Well, today was Kathy's Annual Christmas Shopping day in Redding, CA with her 2 daughters, so we're up at 6:30 am which is really early for us these days. While Kathy was eating breakfast, Ricky (one of our cats) and I went out in the front yard and took some shots of the sunrise. My probably is that very time I set up my tripod, Ricky like rubbing up against it, sometimes messing up a shot, eh!! ;-)) Since the temp was only 29º, but the time I headed back into the house carrying my aluminum tripod, my hands were like ice. So the first thing I did was fixed me a hot cup of coffee and hold it in my hands while I was nuking my 3 minute egg, sausage, cheese breakfast muffin!! Then by the time that was done, I had to warm up my coffee again!! ;-))

Since we've been having a lot of raining lately, it was really nice to take the flag out this morning and see such a beautifully sunny day. Later on about 8:30 am when we left the house, the temp was still only 30º and we had to wait a few minutes with the defroster on high, before I could see to back the car down our steep driveway. As I rounded the bend in the roadway, we could see the Trinity Mts and I pulled over into our garden area road and took a few shoots of the fresh snow coverage. Then we drove on down into the lake of fog that was covering Weaverville, turned right on Hwy #299 / Main Street and heading on the 47 miles to Redding.

We weren't surprised to see lots of pretty Fall Colors all around the warmer and lower elevation of Redding, but today my idea was to take shots of all the fresh snow all around the greater area. Mt Shasta was completely covered with clouds, so no pictures there. Same with Mt Lassen too. But I got a lot of shots of lower mt tops that had a heavy dusting of snow, eh!! ;-)) But while I was taking shots at Whiskeytown Lake, a couple birds kept hopping around me and I finally got off a shot before they hopped off again. Hope you enjoy ALL of my shots!!

Later, 'Viper'

Fresh Snow, Misc Pictures, Airplane, Bike, Cats, etc . . .

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To those of you that don't know it, we've been having a lot of below freezing temps the past couple of weeks and then we got some relief when the rains started. When the heavy cloud cover rises we get glimpses of fresh snow up on the higher peaks around us. Then when I see an opening in the clouds and stop the car, grab my camera and get out to take a shot, the clouds have covered most of the shot, eh!! But today while in town I did get some good enough shots so you all can see that the snow level is getting down almost to our level. So I'm thinking a couple more good rain storms will have snow falling all around our place, eh!! ;-(( That means that I'll have to start shoveling snow again. Bah Humbug!!

I have a lot of variety of pictures again this time as you'll see. All are of interest to me and some will be of interest to different people. Like Stacy like planes so you may like the Airplane for sale or trade and is a 'biker' so might like the Bike too, eh!! ;-)) The Butterfly is for my sister, Jo!! Most of my ebuddies love Cats as Kathy and I do, so will like the cats pictures. As for the MyBacon_NOT picture, you'll just have to read about it in my slide show so I don't have to repeat myself. All in all, I just hope you all enjoy some or all of my Blog Pictures, eh!!

Later, 'Viper'

Lot of Variety

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I tried something new tonight. I added banners/titles within the pictures and then grouped them too. So instead of writing a lot of wording about some of the shoots, I used the banners to help me out, eh!! So I hope you enjoy all the pictures, banners and slide show too. Enjoy!!

Later, 'Viper'