My car behind the snow bank

My car is on the left side of the street.  Yes, the snow bank is taller than the car.  It's also longer and deeper, too.  It gets harder and harder to find a place to put it.  What was easily a two-way street with cars parked on both sides has become a mostly one-way street.  Some people think the city should be doing more, but honestly, there's only so much heavy equipment to go round, and we aren't exactly a highly trafficked street.

It really looks this gritty.

F Number	8.0
Lens ID	LUMIX G VARIO 14-45mm F3.5-5.6
Focal Length	45.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 90.0 mm)
Exposure Time	1/100
Exposure Program	Manual
Exposure Compensation	0
Flash	Off, Did not fire

Motorcycle weather!

The temperature was above freezing and the roads were dry, which means no icy surprises! And so I took the bike to work. That snow will be all gone before the week is out and then I can ride every day!

Ice cave

Not a very large ice cave, to be sure! This is the remnant of the snow bank in front of my house. The water has eroded a tunnel through it; a very common sight. It takes a very tall snow bank to support a tunnel this wide though (it's about a yard / 1 metre across.)

I had a hard time deciding whether to show this or not. I see these things all the time, but there are people who haven't. When I took this, I knelt down on the kerb, put my head and camera down into the tunnel and snapped off a few shots. It's quite bright although it doesn't seem that way in the photo, and my camera isn't an SLR, so there's some parallax between the view I got through the eyepiece and what the lens captured. It was too bright to see the LCD, so I didn't know how I did until I got inside. Almost like shooting with film again!

Anyway, the melting snow all along the street is providing plenty of water to keep these supplied. Another week or so and these snowbanks will be only a memory. Spring comes quickly!

One other thing: I had some difficulty with the title. I love Babooshka's continuing series called 'Odd Shots.' I think this is a candidate for that title!

After snow

Snapped this getting out of the car. It's dusk and that gives this image a strange air. This is the newly fallen snow atop the old snow bank. I always like the way new snow looks, and it's a double bonus for covering that dirty old snow!

Before the snow

This alien looking... thing is what's left of the snow bank in the street next to my house. It's snowing again today; we're expecting up to 6 inches of new snow to fall. I'll post the results tomorrow.

I completely, completely missed Theme Day for the City Daily Photo blogs. Drat. I need to catch up!