After work, and before going out for drinks with a sophisticated friend, I just walked around my apartment building and took some pictures of the recent snowfall. It really blanketed the town for two or three days, and now it's just cold. I wanted to get a series of pictures to emphasize the depth of the snow, how it had piled upon objects as well as how deeply the caretaker had to dig to clear it all away.

(The busybody old woman who lives above me spotted me in the front of the building and watched me like a hawk, until I walked around back, at which time she crept downstairs to the back door to glare at me. I feel bad for her, that she has absolutely nothing else to do with her life.)

The front steps to my building. My window is behind the bushes, immediately to the left of the stairs; the creepy old woman's window is lit up above mine.	The view down the sidewalk, looking south along Bryant Ave.S. This is a good example of why I love the snow, how it coats everything with such a sublime effect.
The plows hadn't come down our street yet, so the street is a pillowy terrain only chewed up and never improved by traffic struggling its way along.	Here's a large bush growing in the front of my building, completely inundated with snow.
Some kind of nexus of pipes by the corner of the building. Dunno what it's for, but it looked neat in the snow.	The entrance to the parking lot, behind my building. Driving in the snow is bad enough; parking in it, facing downhill, is even worse.
Blurry shot of the rear entrance to the building (shortly before the old lady showed up to scowl at me).	My car, the loyal Bonaparte ('97 VW Golf hatchback). The tires are poor on ice, but the car itself loves romping through the snow like a puppy.
Someone's personal plow pushed out a clear path down the middle of the lot, as a favor. You can see the pile of snow rise up to fence-level.	To the left of the previous picture: a beautiful gentle slope of snow and a set of tire tracks almost completely obscured, from just the day before.
And how long will it be before the garbage truck can fight his way back here?	Back to Photos