I woke up to falling snow, a rarity here in town. By the time I’d gotten ready to leave the ground was white (and the roads were a mess). The amount of snowfall here is relatively small, so many (most?) drivers are unaccustomed to driving in the snow.. It was slow going on the way to work. I saw quite a few “stuck” cars, including a truck that’d somehow managed to get stuck in the middle of the road, while going downhill… But the most amusing (scary?) was watching a trash truck sliding down a rather steep hill. I was quite happy to be going the opposite way up.. at least he was going slow.
After a few hours of snow (which got quite deep in fact), it turned to not-quite-freezing rain. Fortunately the roads weren’t too horrible by the evening commute home, so that passed uneventfully.
Twice during the day I went out and shot scenes with my new camera: a Mamiya 645 1000s. It is my first medium format camera and I’m looking forward to using it more. I spent about 20 minutes in the Confederate Cemetery opposite the Astronomy Department shooting pictures of statues and grave sites in the snow. Later in the afternoon I went out to the Lawn and Rotunda, where I was able to hopefully get some nice pictures.
I’ve got slides to scan in from my recent trip to New Mexico as well as some night photography done around the UVa grounds. I hope to spend some quality time with a scanner on Sunday and upload them.
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