Maffi's snow is always white

I'm interested to see that the snow pictures on Maffi's blog are pretty much a neutral white balance, without a trace of the blueness that tricks most cameras (see his post from yesterday, right).

Being curious, I delved into his back posts, and found that they've been a good, neutral proper colour for  pretty much as long as been posting them. 

The earliest of Maffi's snow pictures that I can find is on 6th February last year.  

Question for Maffi: do you have a snow setting on your camera, do you alter the balance on the computer afterwards, or do you just have a super-intelligent camera?

Maffi's chionophilia [love of snow*] goes back some way.  His first snow picture appeared 8th April 2008,  when he announced:

Snow snow snow!
Snow snow snow!
Snooooooooooooow loverly snow!

But the chionophilia must surely be wearing thin - and not just for Maffi.  His testiness is already setting in.  In his post yesterday (pictured above) he writes:

We seem to have a lot of snow, does anyone want any?

Of course, it's not the snow that frustrates the boater but the ice, the bloody ice.  For a boater, ice is a prison.  As I write this, the mercury tells me it's been below freezing for over three days and it reached -7.6C (-18F) last night.  I'm told we've got off lightly.

At heart, liveaboard boaters are nomads. Even if we aren't actually moving, we must have the option to do so. There's no madness quite like nomad-ness.

[*Chionophilia - named after Chione, the goddess of snow. No, I didn't  know either until I looked it up just now.]

Comments

[Paul Savage (NB Adreva)]

We have blue snow in the north because it is colder up here.

Imagine what you southern jessies would do if it was as cold down there as it is up here.

Merry Xmas to one and all.

PS any mistakes in this typing is down to my cat helping me to type whils perched on my lap, helping me to type.

PPS, if you check out Simons Cat on youtube, you can see exactly what sort of cats I have.

[Maffi]

I think its all down to the snow. We here in the south have white snow, whereas you people further up north have blue snow. I have come to this conclusion because the pictures of snow on my blog have been taken on three different cameras (one a mobile phone). It must be the snow. ;~)

[Halfie]

I'm pleased you're back to frequent blogging again, Andrew. Your last sentence is brilliant (but I want to remove the "quite" so it fits to the tune of a well-known song).