Wild About Weather

The Town of Westport has many eclectic and discriminating characteristics that make it stand out. We have Compo Beach, The Minute Man Statue (which I love Lucy replicated in a famous episode), the Westport Country Playhouse, Dan Woog and Coffee An' just to name a few. There is another one which seems to be growing in popularity with every new impending storm, it's Westport's own Scott Pecoriello and his Wild About Weather blog. It has over 4,000 followers on Facebook and after the Staples newspaper article comes out about Scott, it's Watch Out Al Roker!
Scott has been a weather fanatic since he was two years old and is probably the nicest guy in Westport.  Reading Scott's forcasts and commentary will get you as excited about the weather as Scott is. Like his page and you'll never be caught in the rain again!

Thought I'd add a cool weather pic for Scott. 

This is a photo of heat lightning at Compo Beach one night last summer.

Here are the Wild About Weather links.

http://www.wildaboutweather.com/about-us.html

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wild-about-Weather/143650569035081

Caught!

When I was a kid, if you were at a party and you found someone hiding in a closet, they were usually smoking a cigarette or making out. These days, things are a little different...

Almost Not A Snow Day

The message this morrning at 5:45am was all Westport schools will be running on a 2hr delay due to snow conditions. Then I put on the local news and the newscasters were making fun of Westport saying "It looks like the kids in Westport will be the only ones in Southern CT going to school today". Almost an hour later after everyone is up and getting dressed, we get the call that the Westport schools will now not open. Too late to go back to bed. So I took one snow pic on the way to Coffee An' with the kids for breakfast and donuts.

Grand Prix

I had to drive to Mount Kisco, NY today to check out an indoor go carting spot where I'm shooting a party. They have three race tracks, a bowling alley, an arcade, pool tables and bounce houses. It's big, it's noisy and I thought a kid's dream. But after seeing the pictures, my husband is begging to go!

Katy Perry In Westport :)

My niece Soleil is turning six years old in a few weeks and she's having a Katy Perry birthday party. Unfortunately I'll be working that day so I got a sneak peek of her party attire.

Horses In The Winter Fog

FYI

I'm lazy. It's common knowledge to all who know me. It's also widely known that I hate the cold and pretty much all inclement weather. I'm telling you this so you appreciate the fact that most of the pictures on this blog are taken from the comfort and warmth of my car. So blame Mother Nature or the fact that I don't live in sunny San Diego if ever the images aren't just so.

The Long Island Sound taken from Saugatuck Shores (and from my car)

Snow Day

 I tried to go out and take some pics of the 2ft of snow that fell here in Westport 

but our jeep got stuck in the snow. So this is it for now.

 A lone jogger on her way to Compo (a few minutes later, she helped us dig out our car!)

Compo Beach 

Main Street, freshly plowed

Post Road, Westport

Jimmy Izzo, one of everyone's favorite locals, shoveling the front of his hardware store so 

the people of Westport can be prepared to dig out!

And one last pic of my crazy husband going for walk at Compo while the jeep was stuck.

Boat Thingamajig

Everytime I drive through Long Shore, I see this boat thingamajig in the water. It's there in summer and winter, low tide and high tide. I've never seen any people on it. With the leaves down and the tide out earlier today, I got a clear shot but I still don't have any answers. Any ideas?

Easton Reservoir

My daughter and I drove by the Easton Reservoir today. Very quiet on Super Bowl Sunday.

Nash Pond 2013

Nash Pond is frozen (and so am I). I did manage to eke out a few pics before I ran back to the firepit where I sat for the remainder of the day while my friends and their families frolicked on the ice oblivious to the frigid weather.

Check out my blog post from the last time we skated on Nash Pond. 

It was two years ago, the year the snow wouldn't stop!

http://katherinehooperphotography.blogspot.com/2011/12/frozen-nash-pond.html

Ice Ice Baby Ice!

The weather in the Northeast is unbareable to someone like me who doesn't like ot leave the house unless the temperature is above 65 degrees. So all these images showing the bitter cold were taken from the warmth of my car with the window open just enough to snap!

The geese are freezing!

The Saugatuck River icing over. Taken from the parking lot of the Westport Arts Center

 Doesn't this pic look colder in black and white?

A close up of the Saugatuck River

New Year New Camera

I tried out my new camera today on the clouds at Compo. So fun.