Termination Dust meant a lot more when we lived in Alaska. It still is cool when it shows up even though it doesn’t seem quite so daunting as winter only lasts a few months here.
Saturday morning we drove over the pass and there was a light sprinkling of white dust flying around on the road but no actual what we would call snow. And at slightly above freezing we thought we were escaping winter driving conditions. The weather gods do not like to be mocked.
When we came back over the pass it was a different story. I never tried taking pictures with the camera out of the windshield of our Outback before.
It had snowed at least a couple of inches while we were gone. This was the scenery heading up into the pass.
All the dead trees from the forest fires several years ago were liberally frosted and the road was “interesting.” At 33F the snow, which was still falling lightly, was sticking on part of the road and turning into water on top of ice under the tires. Gotta love stud-less winter tires!!
And this is the scenery coming down out of the pass.
The clouds broke up on top and it was pretty bright sunshine to really give you a nice look at the shiny road. And there was a tremendous very dark cloud mass to the west, perched on top of the next row of mountains.
We were glad when we got below the snowline and back into merely wet roads.
Larch trees, a deciduous conifer, are all decked out now in their gold finery.
The next winds we get will create a gold snowstorm underneath and around the larch trees which are abundant on the mountainsides around here.
Finished with row 300 on my knitting project.
This picture shows the center panel design. I will be half-way finished in about a week. Yay!