"Every Picture Tells a Story ... Don't it:" A Christmas Snow, Part II | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publishers note: This post is part of a two post series. The first post can be found here.

    On December 26, 2010 Eastern North Carolina was treated to a rare Christmas Storm that was quite beautiful, and well worth the time to record in images. This story in pictures, here below is my second batch of this unusual; but most seasonal affair.

    I begin with a continuation from the heavy, blowing snow of the previous day, December 26, 2010, as I made these images along the Pamlico River waterfront in Washington, NC. The snow encrusted John Havens Moss Mill: Above.    The railway between the Pamlico River and Haven's Gardens: Below.

    In Mac'swood at Hillside Drive and Camelia Drive, there is a plethora of Pyracantha bushes, many of them quite large: Above.   I have quite a few in my yard, and they just about ripe enough to be eaten by the birds: Below.

    The morning of December 27, 2010 was partly cloudy, with the sun intermittently shaking itself free from the the puffy floaters, the unblemished snow scenes in my front yard, down near the pond, took on a much different, lustrous appearance than the snowy gray day just past: Above and below.


    The rear deck of my home truly had that wintry thing going on, with the 6 inches of powder, the icicles, and the festive wreath: Above and below.

    My weathered chariot, the old T-Bird was my best vehicle to handle the snow since my all-wheel minivan is somewhere pushing-up daisies, metaphorically speaking. The vehicle capably got me around on that snowy day of December 26, and I was thankful for the auto on the sunny, but much icier day after: Above. As you can see that was one icy, cold, windswept bridge, over the Pamlico River, from which I took quite a few of my next pictures: Below.