Monday, February 8, 2010

THE BIG ONE

Figured I better post pics from the last storm before the next one!
View from my window, as the snow was starting on Fri afternoon:
Early evening on Friday:
Late evening on Friday:
Saturday morning:
Views from around my 'hood on Saturday...cross country skier reflection in my building door:
My car...I think:
Corner of 18th and Columbia, my building on right:
The Starbucks was CLOSED!?!
They only cleared this parking lot yesterday...of course they pushed all the snow onto the fire hydrant outside my building (hope we don't have an emergency!):
Some people were still happy about the snow:
Alley near my apt:
18th Street of good ole Adams Morgan:
Colorful houses again:
Calvert St:Mural on Calvert St:
Duke Ellington Bridge (Calvert St over Rock Creek Park):
Rock Creek: Rock Creek Park/Conn Ave bridge:
Conn Ave looking north at Calvert St:Lion on Conn Ave bridge over Rock Creek:DuPont Circle Snowball fight:
Some 2,000 people showed up:
Snowmen outside of Bar DuPont:Tigger was out sledding:
Beautiful sunset Saturday night after the snow stopped:
Sunday, the sun was shining! My street:
20th Street:
Kalorama neighborhood:
Conn Ave at Florida Ave (this was a rare glimpse of pavement that day):
19th Street...more pedestrians than cars:
Some other random pics I liked:(Costa Rican Embassy)Biltmore and 19th on Monday night, the snow pile at the intersection was getting tall:
Shopping at the Soviet Safeway on Columbia Road Monday night...there was nothing left in the produce section:

Feb 2-3 Snow

The snow storm last week was so pretty, I didn't want to skip over it to post pics of the big one. So those are coming up next.
Here's the view from my window Tues eve:
View from my window in the morning:
My street:
Colorful houses around the corner:
The snow stuck to branches and was so beautiful:

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Volunteering in the Snow

As I type this, it's snowing again in DC. Reminds me of volunteering last Saturday at a water stop for the Snapple High Cloud 1/2 Marathon...

The race was held on the C&O canal, just outside of DC. Our water stop was the first and last one on the out and back course, near the 9 mile marker on the canal.
And it was near a few locks. Lock 11 and the lockhouse shown here:We had to keep shaking the table to prevent the water from freezing.
It was cold! But little did we know, it was going to get colder.
Before:
Lock 10:
After:I felt bad for the runners, but almost wished I was running instead because it might have been warmer!
So when they needed a volunteer to drop off cups, etc at another water stop, I quickly offered! Here's the snow coming down at the next water stop: