Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous
Weather: Snowing

We got something like seven inches of snow today, the first snowfall of the season. Snow is very different in Wisconsin than in DC. In Wisconsin it starts earlier in the year, it snows many more times, and the snow really never melts away, so it just falls on top of old snow each time. In DC we get maybe one good snowfall a year, and it never lasts very long.

I took some pictures today, but it was with my film camera, so I don't know if any of them were any good, and it'll be a long while before I get the roll developed. But--I'm getting a digital camera soon, so it'll be much easier to post my pictures then.

Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous
Weather: Snowing

I took these photos at Rehobeth Beach, Delaware, back in February 1999 when I went to my friend's beach house for the weekend. I took a whole roll, actually, but these are my favorites. I think I was inspired by Ansel Adam's beach photography. The year before I'd gone to an Ansel Adams exhibit at the National Gallery and I quickly fell in love with his work. The exhibit included a bunch of photos of beaches and crashing waves and dunes, so I brought a black and white roll along to the beach to see what I could find. Beaches are really lovely places, with the hot sand and plants like beach rose and sea-side plantain, and the ocean stretching out before you. My favorite beach is on Assateague Island in Virginia, a national park filled with wild ponies from a capsized Spanish ship a few centuries back. My family used to go to Chincoteague Island every Memorial Day Weekend, which is the neighboring inhabited island, and we would spend most of the trip on Assateague, biking around looking for ponies or building sand castles on the beach.