Wow, I'm really late this week. I haven't been inspired much lately, photographically speaking. It is very snowy here. I guess it is usually pretty snowy this time of year, as evidenced by my POTW from 2005... although it is all supposed to melt this week, so maybe in a few days it will look like my POTW from 2006.

Angela is in Florida for the week visiting her former roommate Ryan. I'm guessing there is no snow down there. In fact, I'm guessing it is quite warm and nice. Hopefully it will be warm and nice here for her when she comes back.

A funny thing happened last week... We had some mouse issues this winter, so I've been doing the "catch and release far away" thing for the past few weeks. I finally caught all of the mice except for one. Strangely enough, the next morning I saw mouse tracks heading away from the house. I set out my traps that night but a few days went by and I didn't catch anything. I jokingly said to Angela that I had seen mouse tracks leading away from the house, but no tracks leading back, so that must mean the mouse had left on its own.

The very next morning I woke up and went downstairs to find that we had caught another mouse. I told Angela that I must have been wrong about the mouse leaving. Either that or there was more than one mouse left. However, to my surprise, when I left the house that morning (mouse in hand), I saw a fresh set of tracks leading straight to the house! I laughed all the way to my piano lesson that morning.

Maybe I'm easily amused. Anyway, this is a photo of one of the mouse tracks I saw that morning.

Oh yes, in case anyone is curious about that "piano lesson" comment, I won four piano lessons in a silent auction last week. I've already had one of them, and things are going well. I'm currently working on a short version of "Finlandia" by Sibelius, and a bit from Beethoven's "Pathetique" Sonata.

Technical details: This was shot with my Rebel XT + kit lens at 55mm, ISO 200, f/8 for 1/100th of a second. Shooting snow is always difficult, and shooting small impressions in snow with your light source at a high angle is nearly impossible. Luckily there was a little piece of dirt that I could focus on. The shot came out all white of course, but using Photoshop I was able to boost the contrast into the stratosphere to reveal the subtle indentations. Thank goodness for RAW mode and 16-bit TIFF files.

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Hi, 
Yes it is nice down here...a little to hot for me.  28 degrees with a
blazing sun!

See you when I get home :0) 

You captured a lot of detail of the print.  I was similarly amused by tracks of
cat and mouse comings and going over the fresh snow in Ompah last Sunday, and
have put a couple of pics online, but not this detailed.