Dodging the bullet..... until Saturday

Here in the Mid Atlantic USA, we've been in a very wet period. We've had a string of N'easters in December. These are low pressure systems, carrying a lot of moisture, that usually originate in the Gulf of Mexico and then track up the Eastern Seaboard. They are called N'Easters because the counter clockwise flow brings strong winds from the NE quadrant. In Annapolis, the N'Easters of December were dumping a lot of rain but leaving the snow in Pennsylvania or further north in Massachusetts. That is until this weekend! We got a doozy of a snowstorm on Saturday.

I wandered out early on Sunday morning. The light around daybreak was not really enough for movie making on my digicam. My sister who lives in the mountains above Denver would be scoffing at this puny snowfall (or even my sailing buddies up in New England); but for us in the Mid Atlantic it's a big deal.