{"id":5971,"date":"2026-02-20T14:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/?p=5971"},"modified":"2026-02-20T14:43:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:43:30","slug":"a-morning-walk-in-the-snow-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/20\/a-morning-walk-in-the-snow-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"A Morning Walk in the Snow in February"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Got about six inches of wet, heavy snow overnight. A bit unusual for Freising at any time of year, but I’m Not Impressed, I’m From Iowa (plus there was that time we had 18″<\/a>, it’s never going to be that good again). So I went for a morning walk, just around my neighborhood, before it all melted off.

This is the first time in six months I have had my “real camera” out. I need to do that more often. It still has some problems with the white balance that I do not understand.

Except for some cropping, these photos are unprocessed. That’s how I rolled twenty years ago and I feel no need to change now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The snow is 1-1\/8 Petzis high.
(No one needs the metric system.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Since the snow was so wet, it held together in interesting shapes on rails, fences, and other objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fence.
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Another fence.
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A fence with some color behind it.
I know y’all are just here for my witty captions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

St. Norbert.<\/a> The fountain is covered up for the winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I walk by him a couple times a week, but I haven’t photographed him in years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Two views of St. Peter and Paul<\/a>. You can see the cloud cover thinning (it hasn’t gone away).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think I like the one on the left better.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If this next photo was technically better, I could post it in the Freisinger Fotos FB group<\/a> with a “Freising ist so wundersch\u00f6n”-style caption, even though I’m pretty sure this view and caption combo have been posted 137 times before. People love that stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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…but here’s what it actually looks like when you walk by the beautiful photo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And when you look a little closer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Can you tell I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about story-telling?)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

*off the soapbox*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I took several dozen pictures of trees, but instead of boring you with them all at once, I will spread them out over multiple posts. Muahahaha.

In all seriousness, you could spend a whole lifetime noticing all the ways each tree is shaped differently than his neighbors, the branches forming different patterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Is the white balance OK?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Found some tracks in the snow on the sidewalk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some more color:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think this is still a working postbox.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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You gotta get right in and see things.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I also took literally dozens of photos of this fence\/retaining wall. Most of them were unusable. Establishing shot first:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Church, fountain, intersection full of ankle-deep standing puddles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Snowballs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Stripes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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!#*$%^&*! white balance!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’ve often thought my phone has better white balance than my “real camera” but it seems I am wrong:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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#FingerpostFriday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sigh. Anyway, I’ll close this one out with some humor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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