This morning, we woke up to several inches of fresh snow in Bethesda. The snow started yesterday evening, and continued through much of the night. There wasn’t much wind, so the snow piled up where it fell. This morning, I took a quick walk around the neighborhood and photographed the snow on the branches of several trees. Due to the texture of the snow and lack of wind – in several places, I spotted a few inches of snow on very thin branches. In other spots, a group of branches held up large amounts of snow. It was really neat seeing the patterns of the dark branches piled high with the clean white snow.

Here are some of my photos of the snow covered branches in the neighborhood.

These first two photos show how the snow piled up in the branches and they were among the scenes that first caught my eye

(c) 2010 Patty Hankins

(c) 2010 Patty Hankins

The snow really clung to this bush, creating intricate patterns of branches and snow.

(c) 2010 Patty Hankins

Center of one of the bigger trees

(c) 2010 Patty Hankins

The view from underneath a branch

(c) 2010 Patty Hankins

In these final two photos, I really like the way the snow piled high on such small branchs.

(c) 2010 Patty Hankins

(c) 2010 Patty Hankins