It's not snowing? The weather app doesn't agree with my eyes.

We have had a few glitches today. I'm hoping this will post from my phone, because we aren't going to get our Internet figured out tonight.

When we got up this morning, like every morning, we checked the weather. (I mentioned that this morning if you missed it.) Most of the time, it is pretty clear cut about whether we can expect snow, but with a hedge. If there is cloud cover, there is always some chance that it could snow, although if snow isn't expected, they pick a number between 10 and 30, add a % after, and that tells the locals, "Don't worry, no snow."

Last night when we went for a walk, we left to overcast and 30% snow, and spent more than half the walk with this cold powdery white stuff, (we are beginning to jokingly call this white stuff "30%") falling. Today, we started having problems with our Internet sometime during our post-church nap. We aren't sure exactly when, we had our eyes closed, and our joint ignoring of the world, means that we missed whatever the event was that started it. We are pretty sure that snow wasn't involved, but there is no way to know with 100% certainty.

We tried to do the "turn it on and off," method of fixing it, and we still didn't have the ability to connect to Mabel (our dealer for getting our Internet fix in our current location, named after the dog whose owners run the B&B whose suite is our current home) despite Scott's best efforts. It was only after much fiddling with the devices that need Mabel to work that we realized my phone, was also having connection issues. After trying to get it working, we finally gave up, and simply went to do our shopping. When we hit public wifi, we were glad to see that snowfall was only at a 10% possibility, and we proceeded to run our errands.

As we left our first errand, we looked outside to see the 10% falling, caught in the light here:

Our weather app still said it was only a 10% chance of snow, and it claimed it wasn't snowing. We kept checking, curious to see when the app would acknowledge the increasing rate, and size of the flakes, that we were driving through. It was almost 2 hours after the snow started falling, that the weather app changed to show that snow was currently falling, although it still had the chance of snow for the next 6 hours into the future, at less than 30%.

With the sky having dropped half an inch in an hour, the snowflakes continued to grow in size and rate. You can see the larger flakes here:

It isn't easy to take pictures of falling snow. These of the snow already on the ground are easier to get in focus. 

**I love falling snow, and hope I will get better at photographing it, as I take photography and photojournalism classes, but until then, I am pretty pleased to know that I was able to catch a general sense of the difference in the size of snowflakes. Of course, you can always cheat and use special effects, like this, but it is not authentic.