I recently visited a friend and got a photo of some interesting tidbits. One, look at the snow about to fall from the roof. Metal roofs tend to dump the snow like this in big sheets. Someone was gravely injured a few years ago from the experience of being under such a dump. Two, her big old pine in the side yard has lost another branch. As you can see from the other maturing trees around that this is an old grandpa or grandma tree. My kids swung from swings hanging from branches long gone.
I recently visited a friend and got a photo of some interesting tidbits. One, look at the snow about to fall from the roof. Metal roofs tend to dump the snow like this in big sheets. Someone was gravely injured a few years ago from the experience of being under such a dump. Two, her big old pine in the side yard has lost another branch. As you can see from the other maturing trees around that this is an old grandpa or grandma tree. My kids swung from swings hanging from branches long gone.
Mary, this is a very evocative picture; it makes me want to be there, to "taste" everything with my eyes for as long as I can. It's hard to express what I feel...The old tree and the pale pink geranium against the snow are so beautiful I feel like I'm going to cry.
Mary MacADNski: We had had a couple of inches of fresh snow overnight and on my drive to my friend's house the countryside was so incredibly beautiful that it alone could bring tears. Your response to this photo is a great compliment.
That's a lot of snow hanging up there - could easily decapitate someone!
Mary MacADNski: I think I mentioned someone being severely injured this way. I have a metal roof too and it is amazing to see it fall. When leaving the house I quickly run out the door and look up.
Loads of interest in this, mary, as you have pointed out. I like the patterns in the snow about to fall off the roof; I hope the casts were well out of the way.
Mary MacADNski: Thanks, Alan. Having a metal roof, you always have to be careful about when you go out the door.
Great shot mary, and the story to go along does help paint a better picture... it makes me think maybe I should be writing more with my photos to set the scene like you do.
Mary MacADNski: In some photos you don't have to say anything. Mine are not that fantastic. Also, I always feel a need to explain things.
So reminiscent of the snow we had over here in the south of England in January. Our old pine trees in the back garden shed a few big branches. One's still caught up there waiting for the tree surgeon to pay a visit. Needless to say, the children are banned from the garden in high winds.
Mary MacADNski: I have a similar old pine and have a branch hung up as well. Luckily, I need only another adult to help me lift it off, not a tree surgeon.
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