If you're not up on the weather news for Western Washington, here's what's been happening lately:
It snowed on Friday.
We got six inches.
What the hell?
That's my house with the lamp in the window.
In case you're not from around here, this is not normal. Friday set the record for latest spring snowfall in the area, or so I keep hearing. Some places around here got up to a foot, so I guess we got off relatively easy (I'm about 40 minutes north of Seattle). On the plus side, I got some really cool shots:
http://s177.photobucket.com/albums/w212/Midori_no_Kumiko/spring%20photography/ Everything through the dragons are from up to a month ago, the ducks were shot on Friday morning. The snow started falling around 2:00, and the rest of the album was taken about 6:30 that evening.
It snowed again this morning, though it didn't stick this time thankfully. It was gorgeous this afternoon. The weather's just been really wonky this spring.
Sakura Con weekend (three weeks ago): Snow flurries and extreme chill Thursday and Friday, alternately pleasant and rainy and cold Saturday and Sunday. I heard there was snow Saturday too.
Last weekend: 80. Ran to the storage unit to dig out my capris.
This weeked: Snow and thunder, with a little sunshine for giggles. o_O
Yesterday I had the strongest urge to make Sakura's bunny hood outfit she wears to capture The Snow, because there were perfect backgrounds
everywhere in my neighborhood.
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I attended the Cherry Blossom Festival at Seattle Center today. No snow in the city, at least. It was cool, but it was a typical spring day in Seattle: partly cloudy, outbreaks of sun and blue skies, and a small rain shower to finish. There was a meetup for some of the folks from Sakura Con, with cosplay of course. I did my Taisho-inspired outfit, kimono, hakama, lace-up boots, and parasol. Didn't get any shots of it on my own camera, but I took quite a few of the others in our group. We also watched a group from Tohoku perform (they asked me and cp, dressed as Ichigo from Bleach, to join them for a few photos), did a little shopping, and explored an ikebana exhibit. It was a lot of fun. I'm eager to see the photos everyone else got. I know we have a few of me perched in a flowering apple tree, hakama and all.
Tags: Cherry Blossoms Snow And A Spring Festival
