One Of The First Signs Of Winter...

 ...are the upside-down traffic cameras around here.

Our big storms are always preceded by a Howling Nevada Windstorm, whose job it is to not only relocate your trash can five blocks over, but also beat the traffic cams into submission and flip them over. Last week, out in Washoe Valley not one of the five traffic cams was pointed at the road. Instead they showed cows...the sides of hills...some guy's truck in his yard...

They still work, of course. So we get fun views like this, with upside-down trees:

Last year was better though:

To be fair, this was just ahead of the storm that left us with this:

Can't wait to see what we get before the year ends!