Stoneman Says ‘Break Out Your Winter Weather Gear’

Because of a family emergency, I post briefly and quickly. I used Leica Q2 to capture the Featured Image on Dec. 14, 2022. What is stone snowman’s relevance in March 2023? The literal mountains of snow coming down in California.

Let this excerpt from a Sacramento Bee news story—dateline today—give glimpse: “Mammoth snow totals fell in the greater Lake Tahoe area between Monday and Wednesday…In those three days, between 5 and 8 feet of snow was recorded in parts of the mountains, including 92 inches at the Palisades Tahoe ski resort, according to the weather service”.

Oh, yeah, snow dusted Disneyland and Los Angeles, too. Here in San Diego, yesterday, some areas reported heavy hail that covered the ground so thickly that it could be mistaken for snow.

Photo vitals, aperture manually set: f/5.6, ISO 100, 1/320 sec, 28mm; 11:10 a.m. PST.