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Friday Evening, originally uploaded by Brian Knight Photography.

Whew. So, I’m in the middle of one of those weekends where after it is over you need another weekend or holiday just to recover (ie. it’s been a really good weekend so far)…

I bailed out of work yesterday afternoon in time to catch the magic hour light at the battlefield. A couple inches of snow still covered the grounds and the sky was crisp and clear and I wanted to see what I could do with that kind of light. Turns out, the really interesting thing about those conditions was the fog that formed as the sun set. Sometimes, on the rare occasion that I’m driving down 66 in the early morning, I see fog on the battlefield and wish how I could take photos instead of present powerpoint slides. Yesterday I got to shoot fog AND the golden light. See the photos here on Flickr.

When I got home though I had a huge headache (maybe from hanging heavy cameras off my neck I wonder?) and it took several hours before it dissipated enough that I felt like doing anything important (like reading and responding to emails, and editing photos, and oh yeah, making dinner).

(Dinner, by the way, was delicious. I had all the ingredients for waffles so I whipped up a batch from scratch and then made sure to document some of the process.)

After the jump… why I stayed up until really early, plus some skiing pics!

After dinner I was all set to gather my things for the next day’s adventure, but then I noticed that Children of Men was just starting on HBO and I’d always wanted to watch it and so I did. For two hours. And it was great.

When the movie ended (at 2am) I still had to gather my clothes and pack a bag and get the clean sheets on the bed and so it was at about 3:15am that I finally turned out the last light…

So that was Friday. At 6am Saturday morning my phone rang just like I had arranged for it to do. On the other end was Christine calling to make sure I’d remember to get my ass out of bed and come pick her up so we could pick up Michelle so we could all drive to West Virginia for some cross country skiing. It was a good plan and give or take 15 minutes or so (sorry again) it worked out just fine.

The drive to White Grass is a bit on the long side for a day trip, but still totally worth it. The snow kept getting better and better the further up the mountain we climbed. Eventually we were skiing in a winter wonderland that you can only begin to appreciate in these photos (taken by Christine):

Me and Michelle heading down the trail.

I didn’t actually have a camera with me today, so here I am stopped on the side of the trail composing shots in my head. No, really.

You’d rather be someplace else? Not me, this was a fantastic day! :)