Anyone who knows me knows I love weather, winter storms are no exception. I never remember MTSU being closed 4 days in one week. I had an unexpected week vacation in Sewanee, and the weather was beautiful ... in it's own way.
Ice storm #1 was really hard on my Murfreesboro neighborhood. Trees and branches down everywhere but my property did ok. Arriving in Sewanee on Friday night brought a blast of beautiful big snow flakes just around dusk in storm #2. I'm happy that I brought my truck because driving conditions
required a 4x4, especially off the main road. After putting a new starter and battery in my truck, I'm really happy to have it.
These first three photos were taken during the magic hour of dusk during the advent of the 2/20 snow/ice storm #2 It eventually turned to sleet and rain. The flash produced an interesting effect, reflecting off of the big flakes. One photo was taken at my Murfreesboro house after ice storm #1.
UPDATE: The big Sewanee snow of 2/25-26 I wasn't about to miss out on so I rescheduled some students to Friday and enjoyed some 4x4 touring in the 5" of snow we got. Murfreesboro only got an inch. The town of Sewanee got 3-4", less on the north side of the mountain, more on the SW facing slopes like at my place. I got up early on Thursday and hiked around by the Sewanee Cross and plowed through virgin snow all the way to the end of Brakefield road. So glad to have a 4x4 that takes me into these wonderful wintry scenes.
My road was
still snow covered on Sat. 2/28 while the roads around the Domain of the University were mostly dry.
Another winter storm looks likely for Wednesday night!!!! It's your birthday present, John P.
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| View at dusk from Sky Castle |
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| Sky Castle during the storm |
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| the bluff |
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| icy beauty |
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| happy to have lots of well seasoned firewood left |
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| ice storm #1 in Murfreesboro |
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| virgin snow - Brakefield Rd. |
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| Greens View Rd |
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| Virginia Ave |
