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Remember the Oct. 29 post? (Don't worry; you can peek.) This is the same shot, made Saturday. I wanted to take a walk after work. It had snowed off and on all day -- nothing heavy, mind you, just light snow -- but of more concern to me was the wind, which had been rather stiff.

Anyway, I decided to take a walk before dinner. I pulled on my knit cap and Big Red (our super parkas) and started out on my normal route. It takes me out of town proper going up a fairly steep hill and two-thirds of the way up the wind started picking up and soon it was blowing snow horizontally into my face. I did not take time to put on my neck gaiter to cover my nose because I knew it would be OK once I reached the top and turned right because that took me behind the hill and offered protection. Before I got there, though, I was thinking my nose (warning, slight exageration ahead) might freeze.

It is on that leeward stretch that I shot this photo, showing Ob Hill virtually obscured by blowing snow. The rest of the lap wasn't bad and I decided one was enough. Actually, I should have simply reversed the course and would have had the wind at my back in the bad spot. Alas, I did not think of that. On second thought, I might have been blown down the hill.

The weather is warming up. We've been in the 20s rather regularly and the lows are still in the teens. Again, it's the wind that makes all the difference.