Snow, snow and more snow

The first *real* snow of the season arrived today. We had plenty of warning and were prepared. Still, as pretty as it is, I'm not a big fan of the snow and all it entails. I've started my count down to spring.

To make the best of it I decided I would try out the time lapse app I recently downloaded to my iphone. I put the phone in the front window and let it run from 9 am to 5 pm. There were a few falls (read cats playing with the power cord and pulling it out of the window), the quality isn't that great and I should have put it in a window facing the back yard where the amount of snow that fell is more apparent. However, it was my first time lapse experiment and I've learned what not to do next time.

The Day of Thunder, Lightning and Rain

The weather in Nova Scotia is always unpredictable. That's just the way it is. When you live here you know this and rarely bat an eyelid when things seem a bit odd in the way weather. (Of course this doesn't stop us from complaining about it). However on Tuesday (August 2, 2011) things were more than a little bit odd, it was down right strange.

We knew we were expecting thunder storms to roll through. But I doubt very much that anyone really expected 8 hours (or more) of heavy rain...



...thunder...



...and more lightning then I have every seen in my life.

The storm was a bit out of the ordinary. And while I do not possess a fear of thunder and lightning (personally I enjoyed the light show Mother Nature put on), I can say that I hope not to experience a storm like that again for quite some time.

Stormy Drive – Daily iPhone Photograph #147

Watching video I shot of the stormy drive to the city we took yesterday. 

This is a shot off of my computer screen.

summer rain

Last Tuesday we had a bit of a rain storm. It was the first time I tried to film rain. There were a couple of glitches in the final exported video, but they weren't there when I would play the edited footage back in Sony Vegas. Since I couldn't get rid of the glitches I decided to keep them and play off of them with the "ponytails and capris" wording at the end.