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It started as rain, but as temperatures dropped the day after Christmas, by mid-morning Oriental was getting snow. About an inch has come down at this writing (1:30p Sunday).

We sometimes go years without snow, but this is the the second snow of 2010 (we got a few inches in February). Here are a few scenes around the snowy village.

The Duck Pond Dragon

Docks & Harbor Dusted

TownDock dog Jack on patrol

A snowy version of a classic view

More photos coming – we’ve sent out the photography staff with warm gloves.

4:30p Update And now that feeling has returned to the fingers, here are some photos from earlier this afternoon as the snow was tapering off. Even if we didn’t get much snow, it was enough to coat the ground and in the few blocks by the waterfront the snow helped to show their fine lines that we often lose sight of in the everyday scenes:

The docks at Garland Fulcher Seafood.

Plenty of seating at Hodges and South Water to watch the passing scene. There wasn’t much passing, but you could catch a snowcovered scene by early afternoon.

In the sculpture lot on South Water Street, one of Gary Gresko’s “Wave Forms” accumulates some snow.

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Another view of the Gary Gresko sculpture with Elizabeth Cordes’ dental office just behind it.

Oriental’s harbor as seen from the Town Dock wharf.

Fish and snowy net outside Garland Fulcher Seafood Market.

Not a prime day for paddling. The canoe stays put under a palmetto.

Snow falling on cedars and fishing nets in a container on the edge of the Garland Fulcher Seafood plant’s lot.

At Blue Bottle Gardens, a Havahart trap gets some snow cover but is long past the time when it could trap anything but blue bottles.

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The snowy scene in Oriental’s harbor as reflected in the window of the Oriental Yacht Club.

No worry of snow weight on this roof. Snow falls on Oriental’s harbor and in to the unfinished roof area of Point Pride Seafood.

There are spring lines, and then, as this piling shows, there are winter lines…..

Those seats still available at Hodges and South Water….

There wasn’t quite enough snow for a tall snowman at Lou Mac Park. The photographer calls this “Snow-Midyette”. (Benjamin Cox photo)

A backyard on Ragan Road (Lynn Dechesser photo)

View from the Whittaker Creek Marina parking lot (Roy & Barb Masinton photo)

Looking out from the bridge (Roy & Barb Masinton photo)

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Two views from Whortonsville – at left Point Marina, at right the view from Cal’s window. (photos from Cal Bridger)

Sandals on the dock wait for a different day. (Cherie Sokol photo)

A snowman looks proud at Sailcraft Marina. (Cherie Sokol photo)

Peaceful docks on Whittaker Creek. (Cherie Sokol photo)

Twas The Night After Christmas… on Orchard Point Road. (Art and Ellie Richard photo)

Watersedge dock on Browns Creek. (Pat Dixon photo)

View from a window on the Neuse. (Cheryl Huff photo)

Sunrise on the Neuse. (Cheryl Huff photo)

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TownDock’s Senior Photographer found the Duck Pond Dragon stoically stiff on Monday.

Across Hodges Street Monday morning, the Town Dock appeared to have had visitors treading through the snow.

Near the dinghy dock, one of Pamlico County’s more advanced ski slopes.

Duck Day on Brown Creek (Judi Heit photo)

This swam up to Carol and Billy Dixon’s house last night. (Billy Dixon photo)

On Dawsons Creek the snow brought out the birds in force. (Donna Rubinstein photo)

Chairs wait for a better day to watch the birds. (Donna Rubenstein photo)

The setting sun’s light through a stand of trees at Whittaker Harbor Monday afternoon.

Have a photo(s) of a snow scene around Oriental or Pamlico County? Send in photos to share at info@towndock.net.

Posted Sunday December 26, 2010 by Keith N. Smith