SnOwregon 2019 ~ THE PLEASURE - Post III ~ Drive n' Around The NightSnows - PART II: Staying Out WAY Too Late Running Around Town Recording The Snowy Night-Beauty ~ Original Photography And Some Discussion ~

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The Joy Of The Lovely Of It All ~ Part III

More Images Of Driving Around In The Recent Snows

Our giant snowstorm has come and gone. And what fun I had, bombing around town all night long for several nights, photographing the snow. And now, we're STILL having fun looking at what came out of the back of the camera. And you're all invited to continue along for the ride. At least in a visually vicarious sort of way. Onward to more SnowPics.

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Previous PAIN and PLEASURE Posts:

Drive n' Around The NightSnows ~ Part I
Whispy NightSnows
SnOwregon 2019 THE PAIN-Post I
SnOwregon 2019 THE PAIN-Post II

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The PLEASURE Of The Drive Continues

Heading out into the country. Early evening (11:12 PM), gotta get a start on this photo thing. I can turn right or left, and stay on a major highway full of snow, or go straight, and head out into the country. And the AIRPORT. Cool! Plus, even MORE snow. Hmmm...(I went straight).

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I'm glad I payed attention during Driver's Ed, in that section on road sign shape and color. Since the signs were a bit hard to read in these wacky snows. Red, octagonal = STOP! What could this mean, otherwise? ..."Well, I guess I go this way to the All Way STORage place.

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The local BigBox store is closed. But as Motel 6 always said, "we'll leave the light on". Gotta love good hospitality in the shopping realm. Notice the glazed look to the snow. Once the temperature dropped, there was a crust on everything. Wee haaa in the driving department. Time to head over to the BigBox parking lot and practice your nasty-weather driving techniques. When Johnny Law shows up, just tell them - "I was practicing my James Bond evasion techniques, Ociffer". THAT should make them happy.

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The off-ramp to somewhere or another in my night travels

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More trouble getting out to go to work tomorrow. This car looks like someone's been running the heater for awhile, or a couple of randy teenagers are wrestling about in the back seat, sweating up the windows and melting the snows. I didn't look, but since it was cold, I'm voting that heater scenario. Though the other sounds like a lot more fun.

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The snows just kept coming. I took a break in the parking lot of a local grocery store. Someone plowed it. They obviously take better care of the store areas than the roads. I guess commerce IS king. But then again, it allowed me easy access to bags of cookies and other necessary photo-fuel, so I could stay up all night driving all over the place taking pictures. So thank YOU, private snowplow companies, for your DO-diligence!

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Huge, white mountain ranges suddenly spring up in the parking lots that weren't there the day before

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The Mongolian Grill Range. Ah, to be a kid once more...these would be great places to make forts and such. Then again, someone might run you over if they 'went awry' driving by. So nevermind.

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I don't know what to say here, so won't say a thing.

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If you leave your Chevy too long, it might get plowed in until the thaws. Sort of a modern, Shackleton of the S.S. Endurance of the shopping world thing. Stay alert when parking, or you might have to abandon your ride and set up camp in the local BigBox lot until spring. At least there's plenty of bagged cookie sustenance a short walk away to keep you in good spirits and at full-bellied happiness till April.

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On The Wintry Road

A lone traveler, skitching on down the empty, snowy highway below the overpass in the middle of the night. This photo reminds me of my mid-age youth, driving to somewhere far afield in the bleak winter snows, bleary-eyed, a dark, abandoned highway stretching for miles into seem'ed eternity out front, with only a forlorn, far-off AM radio DJ to keep me company through the night. One of those loneliest of moments of life.

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~ Finto ~ _{(Temporaritudinale')}

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_{Stay tuned for more, folks}

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Thanks for stopping in and viewing more images of SnOwregon 2019: The PLEASURE, Part III. If you have any thoughts about continued driving and photo taking in a snowstorm, getting stuck doing it, staying up ALL night to do it, a better survival super-food than bagged cookies, or anything else this post reminds you of, please feel free to comment away in the spaces below. I'd love to hear from you.

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_{Posted: 03/29/2019 @ 11:30}

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Excerpts From Late-Night Conversations With A Mechanical Cat

Fact Number 130

More Stinky the Cat Classics from Catfacts of Yesteryear

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Author's Note:
Many photos are a bit grainy. They were shot with the highest ISO (3200) on my small Lumix camera, while hanging out the car window, during the storm. All photos were handheld, without a tripod. So, there is a bit of color shift and odd things going on, which I feel adds to the effect. Thankyouverymuch. -dds