Why wait?

This morning I promised more pictures of yesterday’s snowfall in the days ahead, but why wait?

The snow droppeth alike on all things open to the sky. That includes the low, a prickly pear cactus (Opuntia engelmannii), and the high, in this case a grand huisache tree (Vachellia farnesiana). The two, each in its proper station, grow a couple of blocks apart in my neighborhood.

© 2021 Steven Schwartzman

Fiat lux, fiat nix

The Latin words “Fiat lux” mean “Let there be light.” Yesterday morning in Austin anyone who’d said instead “Fiat nix,” “Let there be snow,” would have seen that come to pass. I took the photograph above looking out our front window at a yaupon tree (Ilex vomitoria) that the cedar waxwings had left alone.

I ended up spending two hours and then another three hours yesterday documenting our rare snowfall. More pictures will appear in the days ahead.

© 2021 Steven Schwartzman