A thick layer of snow blanketed Rock Creek Park last Tuesday—for about six hours. This was a storm that the weather people got all excited about, predicting as much as 10 or more inches of snow in the D.C. region. However, the storm apparently took an unexpected direction and, although it snowed pretty hard all day last Monday, none of it stuck. It continuted snowing through the night, which is where all the snow you see here came from. By about noon on Tuesday, the snow was gone. It was a strange day to go from this much snow in the morning to basically not a trace by afternoon. I wish I would have had time to take more pictures, though. It was a really wet snow that stuck to everything; you may notice that even the tree branches were thickly coated. Very beautiful. UPDATE 3-7-05: For more (and really awesome) photos of last week's big but short-lived snow in D.C., check out the dcsnowthrowdown on flickr, courtesy of the Washington DC/Metro Area flickr group. [link via DCist]