What beautiful, pretty pictures! We live in southern Ontario so our snow is not so plentiful, but I grew up in the north so have seen plenty of it ;)

WOW NHB! Hard to believe we are in the same state! We did get a bit of snow Thursday, roads covered but not enough to completely cover grass, etc. Problem was, it was dry, powdery and ICE beneath.

Beautiful pics - I am still not a fan of snow though! LOL

tina

Wow, you have an awesome view at the rear of your home. All of the pic's were beautiful. I'm in SC so we don't have the snow, but I did get to see some when we were in Tn. a couple of weeks ago. We visit several times a year and stay with my mom and her friend in their vacation home. It is a quaint rock house and is beautiful.

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Well, these aren't beautiful landscapes like NHB's photos...just some winter time fun.

Pond skating, backyard rink skating, sled rides, snow angels and hot cocoa!!!

Tina - The last couple of pictures were from the latest snow and the others were from the storm we had before Christmas - the one where my DH was stuck on the Interstate for 5+ hours.

I have some beautiful pictures of our neighborhood lake and golf course on my cell phone. The lake is frozen over from this latest cold snap. I cannot figure out how to transfer my cell phone pics to my computer. :(

sc_kathyc - That is a beautiful setting. Do you mind sharing where in TN?

My parents live in Anderson, SC and they had a little snow last week. growing up there, we had a few good snows.

danielleg - The best of fun! Cute children, too. :)

I'd like to know where that is in TN also Kathy - if you don't mind sharing. . .

NHB - we didn't get anything before Christmas, but my hubby was coming back from Oneida and there was a bit of ice in one area of the interstate. Just enough that the truckers were getting stuck! Which, of course meant traffic was not moving. He had to re-route - head towards Oak Ridge and then back up our way. A 1.5 hour drive turned into almost 5!

Yes, danielle - the pics of the kids are adorable. I particularly love the one where the little one is being pulled. LOL

tina

My husbands normal drive was suppose to be 10 minutes from work! The truckers were the cause of the back-up. Two jack-knifed.

OK, I know there are more snow pictures out there. Keep them coming.

NHB and tinam61, you guys are talking about my neighborhood! I read Oneida and Oak Ridge and I just had to post. We didn't get enough snow outside of Knoxville to do much damage or post any pictures. I did get last Friday off from work only because we have a steep driveway and didn't want to risk wrecking my car. Send some of it my way, please!! My kids are so ready to build a snowman :-)

Lafonda! I think I've asked before where you were and you didn't see my question. Glad to know! I'm near the mountains - not quite to DOLLYWOOD!!! HA!

tina

My daughter and SIL were in Gatlinburg over the weekend and said they had snow on the ground.

I can't believe that no one else has snow photos!

Okay, NHB, here are mine . . . we're south of Nashville, and this is the snow that shut down most area schools for two days.

We moved here 18 months ago from Northern Indiana, so this amount of snow is . . . not quite what we'd been used to. Our Indiana views were more like NHB's pics! But for what they're worth . . . here they are! The grandkids were totally thrilled!!

newhomebuilder, the rock house is in Cosby Tn. It's approximately 15-20 miles from Gatlinburg and/or Pigeon Forge.

tinam61, the house is right on 321 which is a pretty busy hwy so you have probably been by there many times.

Pretty pictures, I hope more are posted.

We had a white Christmas here in Big D, last one was 1926. Alas, I didn't take pictures *hangs head in shame* No snow since then :-(

Oh my gosh what beautiful pictures. I love how winter looks. It's so pretty. Too bad it's such a pain to drive in. Love the kiddies at play too. I even got one of our grandson admiring the snow when he got here today. Missed his grabbing a clump of snow and tossing it though. Guess that's a natural thing to do when a little guy (25 months)to do.
Here's a couple I have for now. I have more on my camera I took today I'll have to load and add later.
Here's what I have now.
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Above is one of our Burning Bushes. Not so burning at the moment.

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And this one above is the view across the road standing on our front porch. Too cold that day to go out any further.

I'll be back.

Oh Sue, that is funny. I'm surprised more folks hasn't thought of something like that. Too funny. At first I thought it was a kid playing in the snow. Hope it's not on a busy street!

Here's more of mine.

The farm just south of our home.

A cropped view of our home from the highway.

About a city block up the highway from the one of our home.

And just a matter of yards up the highway.

This one I took while our daughter in law was getting our grandson out of the car dropping him off this evening.

And this is our grandson Owen. Just missed getting him picking up and tossing a clump of snow. Now he's kicking it. If it gets warm enough we have a huge hill out back to take him sledding on.

Beautiful pics everyone!

justgotabme - That photo of your home has got to be a keeper...just gorgeous! Oh, and I love the icicle pic.

sc_kathyc - Thanks for that info. The cabin is so lovely.

hostagrams - Did you get more or less snow in Indiana?

suero - How funny! I'll have to remember to try that tomorrow. We have snow coming down again and the schools are already closing.

Love all the snow pics!! I live "out west" and we are not having so much snow this year but last year.......this is a pic of our house(last Dec.) before it was finished. I think off and on we had a total of 7 ft. for the winter!!!

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Driveway before plowing

Pool and patio

Jane

Oh such gorgeous pics! Justgotabe...those ice encased twigs need to be blown up, matted, framed and hung in a gallery! At the very least, on your wall!

I am so jealous of all the beautiful snow! Everyone right around us (Nashville and Tri-Cities) got more than us, too.

tina- I'm just west of Knoxville. We should try to get together sometime. We are in Knoxville all the time for dinner and shopping.

Keep the snow pictures coming. At least I can enjoy everyone's snow via pictures.

No fair! Send some this way! I'm on the coast of Texas next door to Louisiana. I remember when I was in grade school, we had about 4-6 inches of snow here, so it CAN happen! I would love to see it again and for my kids(25 and 28) to see it cause I don't think they believe me! lol

NHB can you email the pics to yourself? That's the only way I know to get my pics from my cell phone to my computer.

I don't have any pictures of the BIG STORM we had before Christmas--we got 2 feet of snow then. But it did snow a dusting just the other day, so when I got to work, I snapped this picture. Yep, that's my view at work. Life is good.

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Would you believe that we had some snow/ice all the way down here in Georgia? Everyone's views are so pretty.

NHB: We had LOTS LOTS more in Indiana!! We moved here to be with kids/grandkids, but leaving snow behind was a second reason. In fact, I left the snow shovels, ice melt and all other snow related things in the garage with a smiley face sign on them!
This is the lake house the winter before we moved . . . you can see the frozen lake in the background. I loved that setting and -- despite the cold weather -- it put a large crack in my heart to leave. I really miss living on the lake.-

Wow! Simply beautiful pictures! As much as I love Spring and Summer, there is something magical about Winter pictures!

Here are some shots around our house, some are of the big snow we had before Christmas and then the dusting we had just had.

Dusting we just had

Snow on the Osprey nest...they are off vacationing in warmer climes at the moment, lucky Osprey! ;)

The creek is frozen, not frozen enough to walk on, but pretty to look at.

Our big snow, unusual for our area, but so pretty!

Looking out across the field, can you make out the old falling down tobacco barn?

Snow bending the pines across the creek.

Sunset on the river.

Snowy, happy dog!

Love seeing everyone's pictures!!

Kat :)

I cannot begin to address all the photos, but wanted to say THANK YOU for all the contributions thus far. Beautiful snowy photos and lovely homes, children and dogs!

I love the snow and want much more. My DH is so sick of it, that we are thinking of planning a cruise for the end of February.

So many beautiful photos! I love pics of snow scenes!
Not much snow here at the moment, but this is one I took when we did have some. This is our home from farther out on our property. You can only see part of the house, but our mountain behind is beautiful.

I took this of our statue in the garden bed off our front portal. She looks so pretty in the snow, I think.

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Lynn

lynninnewmexico - That IS pretty!

"NHB can you email the pics to yourself? That's the only way I know to get my pics from my cell phone to my computer."

That's just it...I cannot figure out how to email from my cell phone. From the prompt send, I cannot type in an email address...only numbers.

Gorgeous in Southern California today, Jan. 12th, where our camellias and begonias are wildly blooming....

begoniagirl, though the winter snow scenes are beautiful it is your landscape that I lust after. I'm a Southern girl too but unfortunately, it does not stay as warm here in SC as I wish it would!

Begoniagirl, do you have a guest room I could stay in?!

Kat :)

LeahCate, thanks. I'm planning on having it printed and framed.

NHB, I'm am so enjoying this thread. I wish I could have gotten out when it was prettier here, but I was sick with a bad head cold and out temps were way below zero. Not that I felt like getting out even had they been warmer. It certainly kept the ice on the trees for a long time. Most of that was gone I noticed when I was out yesterday.

Lynn, I had no idea you ever got snow! You statue looks as though she's enjoying the change from all the heat.

Begoniagirl, at one time I never would have believed there were such views in the dead of winter. I mean I knew there were places it was warm this time of year, but just couldn't fathom anything but cold and snow. Not that snow can't be a pain, but I think I'd miss it if we moved where there wasn't any. No snowmen, sledding, ice skating. And my gosh, how can a child make it through to adulthood without experiencing the joy of making at least one snow angel! Your winter scene, thought not quite my view of winter, is certainly beautiful.

WOW What INCREDIBLE views you guys have......& photographers.
mine won't compare (if I can actually get them on here~I'm new)Most of our snow was rained away on Christmas day, but the day after we ended up with about 14 inches.
I am not a cold weather person, so mine are all from inside LOL

The first is looking out my front door
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After the first snow...

Front yard drifts. We've never had this much snow!

Christmas Day, View from the front door, it was too cold to venture out further. Normally we can see the whole valley, but the blowing and drifting were incredible.

Two of our "kids" playing in the "pass" after they finally got the road open. Even then it was only passable with 4WD for a few days. We were stuck for 2 1/2 days with all the kids. It was great actually! The walls are still over 6' high after three big snows and drifting.

These photos are stunning!! It does not snow much where we live in NC. Although the photos are stunning, I think I prefer the CA weather!! wow!!

I keep coming back to this thread as more beautiful Winter scenes are posted. Lovely!
NHB, too funny! New Mexico is not like Arizona, except for the very southern part of it near the Mexican border. Most of the rest of us have four distinct seasons and we always get snow in Winter. Lucky for us, though, it usually melts off the roads within a few hours, if that. I live in the mountains between Santa Fe and Albuquerque and we still have snow on the north side of our house from before Christmas. It was 21-degrees here this morning when we got up! But, that said, it's probably 48-degrees down in Albuquerque by now (11:30AM). DH is playing golf down there(granted, with his longjohns on) at this very minute ;^D
Lynn

Begoniagirl - what is that growin on your arbor? I am thinking of replacing the wisteria on my arbor this year. (With something less invasive!). I wonder if those are a different variety of camillas? Here they bloom in the winter. Well the only ones I know of. Maybe there are warm weather varieties also?

Gorgeous yard!

tina

Here are some from central Illinois

Hey Tinam61....The vine on the swing arbor is a 'star jasmine', in the South known as 'confederate jasmine', and its botanical name 'trachelospermum jasminoides'. It is evergreen, has smallish leaves, blooms with creamy white fragrant flowers in early summer, even used as a groundcover, and is very easy to control and train with moderate pruning. It doesn't have that wild growth of the wisteria.

Our camellias here in SoCal start blooming with the 'sasanqua' varieties from October thru February, the 'japonicas' from November thru May, and speciality hybrids throughout the camellia season. We have many different varieties in our garden and in containers so there are always camellias in bloom from fall thru spring. We live two hours away from Nuccio's Nursery, a well-known grower of azaleas and camellias and I've made many a trek, coming home with a car full of plants.

Hope no one will mind that this gardening info is way off topic of the 'winter sky' thread but my photos are representative of most winter days here.

For fifteen years we also lived in beautiful Lake Arrowhead, just two hours away in the San Bernardino Mountains, where we had snow in the winter so we have done our share of shoveling!

hey guys, I hope you dont mind me asking this, but I am TOTALLY ignorant of snow - living in arizona my whole life, I have only ever seen it maybe once!

I am wondering what actually happens to day to day life when it snows like that, does the area just shut down and no one leaves their house or are you still expected to get to work etc? do all the smaller neighborhood roads usually get plowed by the city every day and then you just have to plow your own driveway?

gosh I sound like a doof, but I have always wondered about this!

Ok, here's my contribution from sunny but chilly Miami:

I enjoyed looking at the beautiful pictures. I live in Orange County, CA and I would love . . just once to look out the window and see snow. As a native Calfornian, it would be so exciting - and beautiful. My daughter went back to college in NY this morning. The high here today of 70 degrees and she will land in the 20 degree range. She seems to enjoy the change and loves the snow. . . and the freedom that college life brings.

snagd - Are those birds live? So cute!

The last photo of the moon is outstanding!

karenn - In TN, our schools have to close because we do not have enough equipment to get to the back roads in a timely matter. Once the city has done it's job to get the major roads, they come into the neighborhoods. The driveways are left up to the home owner. For instance, all the roads in our area are now clear, but our steep driveway still has a good swath of snow and ice on it.

Our neighborhood lake is frozen and some kid named Alex has gotten out in the middle and written his name ..."Alex was here" and has added a smiley face. I think he is darn lucky that he is here, and not at the bottom of the lake. So dangerous. Those poor kids in Atlanta just broke my heart. ;(

Alaska winter view:

Washington winter view:
Outside:
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Inside:
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Why do I feel like everyone is staring at me?

Funny!