This Winter storm seemed to slip in under my radar but thank goodness my internal clock was at peak performance so I didn’t miss it. I usually ask my wife to set her phone alarm when I am going out on these early morning adventures but for whatever reason her phone is not playing by the rules! I don’t know how other people operate but I rarely get let down by my built in clock, and the last two times I requested a wake up call, the phone never went off! I asked for a 5 am alarm and the first time I woke up at 4:58 and most recently at 5:03 so that’s pretty good in my book!

This particular storm only dropped around 5 inches but it was very clingy and it fell overnight leading into a Sunday morning. I was actually headed to another location but as I drove up main street in this local town I was struck by how pristine and quiet everything was. It’s a little rare to find untouched sidewalks, next to zero cars driving by and the parking spots empty. I roamed around for 2 hours only seeing the occasional walker go by and captured what I could while it lasted! It was still snowing for the first hour so I had to use an umbrella to keep the lens clean but it finally stopped which allowed much quicker composing and what not. This scene captures the local downtown bank which serves as the location of the town Christmas tree. You only see a part of the front which was designed by the talented C.Emlen Urban, an architect from Lancaster county who designed over 100 buildings from the 1890s to the 1920s.