It Snowed!

It was a cold and rainy day today, but it was rapidly turning the countryside even greener so I thought I'd be an optimist.  I decided to drive to Owen Sound to look for a camera I'm after and see if I could get some pictures of the (wet) green landscape along the way.  By the time I got there it was snowing!  Heavy wet flakes of rain/snow splattering the windshield!  And it's supposed to stay even colder tomorrow, hovering just above freezing.  It's raining or sleeting or snowing in all these pictures.

This is one of my favourite farm views, over rolling sheep pasture on a farm just south of Walter's Falls.

And a close look shows you that the fence across the field in the distance is an interesting stone fence.

This is another favourite view, a farm used as a community pasture, the barn still maintained.

I'm really tempted to drive in and have a look around at some of these places, or perhaps talk to the farmer and learn a little more.

Not all fields are green, because farmers have been busy planting.  I think this field is already planted, and just about to turn green; I've always liked the view across here with the two barns, but just never stopped to get a picture before.

This field looks like corn stubble that's been chisel plowed and disked to provide a seed bed for this year.  I wonder if the seed is already in the ground?

And this is likely a crop of spring wheat, or barley just starting to come up.  I like this view with the barn half-hidden behind the hill.

Can you see the sleet/snow slanting down in front of the dark barn?

Here's the snow, in front of a line of cedars where it would show up.  Of course it wasn't much snow, and immediately melted on the ground, but it was still snow!

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We're in the market for a pocket-size point-and-shoot camera as a backup for our travels, so I stopped in two camera stores to see if I could find one.  Do you know that they no longer make small point-and-shoot cameras with a viewfinder?!?!  This means that you're left to use the digital screen on the back of the camera to compose your picture in, and focus the camera with.  On bright sunny days, for someone who shoots all their pictures outdoors, this is impossible!

Neither store had anything that would suit without buying a bigger camera.  Both clerks agreed with me, one saying the manufacturers should smarten up, and the other saying it's because they want you to buy one of the bigger cameras.  As for me I'm still looking.  A friend has one that I think may do, a Panasonic model, but neither of these stores carry that brand.  It means another stop on one of our long drives south - I'm reluctant to buy one on-line.  Suggestions welcome!