We don’t get a whole lot of snow in east Tennessee. Maybe once or twice a year we’ll get a dusting. Well starting yesterday it actually did snow – pretty much all day. And today the snow continued, albeit light flurries. In the three years or so we’ve been here, this is the most snow we’ve seen! I know you cold weather people will laugh but we warm weather southern people get excited when it sticks to the ground. Schools are closed, people stick up on milk and bread, etc. It’s kinda cozy, so long as the electric stays on.
I went outside and took a short video of some snowy scenery around the barn and pasture. This is part 1 of 2. After I shot and edited this video, Mikki and I let the horses out today and got some great video of them playing in it. I’ll post that probably tomorrow.
This is high definition video and it’s probably better seen in full screen mode. After you push play, there is a little icon in the bottom right corner of the video that will allow you to expand it to full screen. The video length is about 3 minutes and there is no music. Just snow falling, traffic in the background, the hum of the video recorder and occasional horsey sounds.
EDIT: I almost forgot – making an appearance in this short video are our new barn kittens, Daisy and Clover! They’ve never seen snow before and don’t seem to like it a whole lot.
Wow, that’s a lot of snow! I wonder what my horse will do when I have that much snow. I don’t think I have had a horse when it’s snowed here.
Wait till you see what they did in it. Well, especially Valentine and Cash. I’ll try to get part 2 done for tomorrow.
I think you have an infatuation with snow on trees. The starkness and the detail of the following snow is really lovely, but my favorite part was seeing your horses and having a peek inside your barn. I looks so cozy in there. If I were a horse, that’s where I’d choose to be if it were snowing.
Enjoy your snow!
~Lisa
New Mexico
oops I meant ‘falling’ snow. duh!
But I did forget to ask you what kind of video component you used to take that amazing video. Well done!
Lisa
New Mexico
Wish I could have seen it. The player came up but no video. Do you have to wait for the whole thing to download first?
Ahhhh….trees!
I also love the look on the kitties faces. Priceless!
Fun!
You are so lucky to have gotten some nice snow – it has been mid 70′s where I live for most of this month.
Really good video as well – the cats don’t really seem to be enjoying their first snow much. What did the horses think of it?
Thanks for the comments, guys! Gosh, I had no idea I took so much video of trees. I honestly didn’t even think about it. It just looked pretty to me. I know some will say “big deal, it’s just snow” but it really was a big deal around here.
I shot the video with a Canon HV20, which can be had these days for around $500. It records HD video to mini-dv tape, which I prefer for my video projects, but there are variations that shoot on memory cards, a hard drive or even blu-ray. I quickly edited the video in Adobe Premiere Pro CS3.
Part 2 tomorrow. I think you guys will like it way more than this one because it’s all about horses in the snow.