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Takin’ pictures on a cold “winter” day

Dec 18, 2007 Things I like

I woke up yesterday morning to find the ground covered by about 1/2 inch of snow- not a lot, but enough to make for some pretty good photographic opportunities. Although it was quite cold outside, I decided to spend the morning taking pictures.

First, I headed over to White’s Mill, one of the Abingdon area’s most photographed structures. Sure enough, there was just enough snow on and around the old millhouse to make for a nice “wintertime” photo, so I took several pictures of the beautiful scene then headed back to the house to download the images to my PC and pick up my better half. I actually ended up featuring an image of a snow-covered White’s Mill as the “Picture of the Day” on TodaysPhoto.org.

Cheria and I agreed that US Highway 58 between Damascus and Konnarock would probably have a number of gorgeous snowy scenes waiting for us, so off we went towards the high country. We stopped several times on the way up the mountain to take pictures of Straight Branch, the badly misnamed creek that snakes its way under the highway more than a dozen times over a nine mile stretch.

I took my camera and walked up and down the creek, photographing semi-frozen waterfalls and tumbling rapids in several locations. At the same time, Cheria was taking pictures of the snow-covered trees out the car window. All in all, we had a great time, eventually returning home with several very nice images to show for our efforts.

We managed to bring home several pictures of White’s Mill and Straight Branch, all in one day! How blessed we are to live in such a wonderful part of the good ole’ United States of America!