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January 21, 2006
Snow Day
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We woke to another eight inches or so of snow on Friday morning. With what was left from Monday it's over a foot deep in places. I had to postpone my naturopathy appointment because it was snowing like crazy and Richard barely made it out of the driveway. Poplar Road didn't get ploughed until mid-afternoon, when our neighbour Jeff had already used his backhoe to clear the road and everybody's driveways. I went for a walk before breakfast, determined to find Cama Llama and get the pictures of her that friends have been requesting. When I went round the side of the house to the gate, I saw what the snow had done to my lilac. Gorgeous. Now it's Sunday morning, and we've had another inch of fine powder to top it off. I might wander over to the fields south of here with the camera. Never made it over there last year. |
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More than that, though, I would love to take my niece, Lael, under that snowy arch in person on just such a day, make a snow fort, and trudge out the back gate to the woods to see Cam. I'm really looking forward to that. The next photos I take of Cama Llama will likely be with her new baby. I hope I'm there to see it this time, but I'll be heading down to Vancouver at the end of the week for the Bellydance Superstars show. I'm glad we got our snow this weekend and not when I'm about to drive the Coq. IF Richard even lets me, as he's not thrilled about the idea. I have no snow-driving experience other than once in December. But the forecast is for plus seven degrees again by Tuesday so we'll see. I'm enjoying this snowfall as long as it lasts! |
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The view from the new French doors in our master bedroom is gorgeous. There are icicles up to 18" long hanging from the eaves all around the house. I took pictures yesterday but haven't downloaded them yet. Our blue spruce tree looks the best of all the trees in the yard, but somehow I've yet to take a photo of it that looks as good as the real thing. Whereas the shot of the fir in the back, taken Friday morning while the snow was still falling, looks amazing with the snowflakes in the foreground. Because most of the image is white, I was able to reduce the file size a lot and still post a larger format picture. I would have liked to display the first image of the lilac boughs the full width of the screen, but all the detail would be lost.Posted by anita at January 21, 2006 10:48 AM
Comments
woooooooow - what a perfect xmas tree photo!! Wish we were there - love the snow also. Where is your angel? Oh the thrill of being in the middle of a Big fresh snow fall - quiet/peaceful - so serene - a dreamy place - enjoy, enjoy, enjoy.
Mommsie
Posted by: mommsie | 06:05 26 January 2006