Snow!

I woke up this morning, and looked out the window to find our neighbor's roof, the deck, the lawn chairs and table, the grass, and pretty much everything covered in a dusting of powdery, sugary white... snow! :) Can you guess what I did? Grabbed my camera and ran out the door of course! While I was snapping away, I managed to capture these...

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I am in love with the background in the above photo! Reminds me of Christmas cards... 

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...and then the most unfortunate thing happened. My camera battery died. It took about three times of moving the on/off switch back and forth to convince me that it was indeed, dead. I so hate when this happens to me! Mainly because it dies when I most need it. My camera battery does not like me. I keep telling myself I need to buy myself another one but I never really get around to doing it. Perhaps I'll just put it on my Christmas wishlist...

Anyways, an hour later, with my battery only half charged, I headed out again. The snow was melting so rapidly, it would've probably been all gone if I'd waited for it to fully charge. I did manage to capture the beauty of that last bit of freshly fallen snow though. Here's some of the photos I took...

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{linking up the above to golden hour. this picture was taken on November 18, 2011 at 12:45PM, with the following settings: ISO 400, 1/250,  7.1}

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By the way, anyone know of any photo challenges which I can enter some of the above photos in? I already entered mary ann's, but I can't seem to find any other active ones. Links are appreciated! :)