NYC’s Snowiest January Ever!

It’s official, with the addition of the 19 inches that fell on Wednesday we have now broken the one month total for January. The previous record was from 1925, and it was 27.4 inches. As of today, we have had 36 inches in January 2011. And there’s a chance of light snow tonight and tomorrow night! If we get one more inch, it will be our snowiest month ever.

That’s especially significant because our snowiest month is usually February!

Looking outside at the huge piles of snow everywhere I find myself having flashbacks to the winter of 95/96, which was our snowiest winter ever. I remember it well. As a result, every winter since then hasn’t seemed that bad – until this one. That one started earlier, in November, but this one had the sixth largest total ever in late December. And since then we seem to be having weekly storms. This one was our seventh.



On the plus side, instead of worrying about driving to New Jersey in bad weather as I did in 95/96, I have enough flexibility in my schedule to actually take off snow days and head out with my camera. Thursday was truly stunning. The neighborhood was exquisite.

Central Park was a mob scene. (We have a 50 inch base – cross country skiing anyone?) My favorite comment was from a woman who said to her companion “Well at least we have our camera phone!”

Enjoy!
PJ

PJ's summer 2010 Top Ten Photos

My apologies for the delay in posting these photos. Time always seems to get away from me once the semester starts.

This was a tough year for summer flowers. We followed our record breaking spring heat with record breaking summer heat. That makes sense since I certainly can't remember a summer with so many days in the 90's. And even when it cooled off it only went down to 89! The flowers continued to run about three weeks ahead of the normal schedule and everything looked quite sad by August.

I am pleased to say however that these flower photos were taken on my roof, where my garden held out fairly well thanks to the watering system.
Day Lily

Easter Lily

Clematis

Rose


These next two photos were taken on the Upper West Side. The juxtaposition of the working men and women amused me...

But not half as much as seeing the final ad with the ladies in the New York Times Magazine section did a few weeks later.

For a few weeks there was a special exhibition of mannequins in the Garment district, so i went down to see if I could get a few good shots. It was a bit difficult because you had to time the light just right, but I was happy with the way these two turned out.

Last, but not least, I visited Times Square to see if I could get a few new photos to work with. These are two of my favs.

Enjoy!

PJ