It Just Keeps Snowing.....

and snowing and snowing and snowing.  As the weatherman predicted, it did in fact snow all week.  I am sure that we received another 3 feet of snow this week alone!  The temperatures have been very mild this week though with it being a degree or two above freezing during the days.  Even with the temperature slightly above freezing it snows, big, heavy wet clumps of snow, and since there is so much snow on the ground, it stays and continues to pile up.

One of the residential streets in town.  See the peaks of the roofs and car ports.  That is one of the loaders they use in town to clear the snow.

Lovely two storey home for sale.  Complete with a car port out front.  Come on you know you want a vacation home.

This is why it is nice to have the car port attached to the house.

A closer view of the balcony and roof.  Can you see all the layers of snow up there?

I think even the little kids at school can slam dunk now.

Not much swinging happening these days though since the swings are buried.  That is the swing set in the lower left corner of the picture.

Baseball anyone?

Enjoying the snow!

Just a few pictures of "E" out enjoying all the snow we have!

At the top of the snow hill.

Sliding down.

Relaxing in her chair of snow.

Queen of the snow hill!

I took this just to show how high the snow hill is.  In the picture on the left you can see the stop sign in the lower right hand corner.  I know she looks very close to hydro wires, but it is deceiving.  At no time could she touch any of the wires, so it was completely safe.

Not quite cold enough.....

.........to photograph snowflakes!  Yes, even though we get plenty of snow here it is not not the right kind of snow to be able to take pictures of the individual snowflakes.  It is generally too warm here and the snow is clumpy or too crystalized.  It was a little cooler the other day, so I tried to take a snowflake picture, but as you can see the flakes are not quite right, it needed to be just a touch colder out.

I will try again to get the perfect snowflake, but in the meantime here is a link to some previous snowflake pictures.   You can see the difference the temperature makes on the formation of the flakes.

Winter

The rock face of the mountain in the winter.

Let it Snow, let it snow, let it snow

I know many of my friends in family in Ontario have been telling me how there is not snow and how winter has been so mild this year.  Temperature wise, it has been very mild here, with many days a degree or two above freezing, but the cumulative total for snowfall so far this year is over 18ft.  I thought I would share some of our snow with you, on the internet anyways.


A couple of buses that are no longer in service, so the snow has not been cleaned off of them.

Bill's Tires is not longer open either, so the lot has not been cleared either.  Check out the amount of snow sitting on the roof.

A few more of the building downtown.

A little garage or shed in town, you can just barely see the top of the doors.

The Health Centre

Another house in town.  I am pretty sure no one is living in there this winter.  The number that you see in the picture is on the car port.

This is very common it town with the A frame houses.  Since most of the roofs are steel, with the mild temperatures the snow tends to slide off, and we are now reaching the point where the snow on the ground and the snow sliding off the roof have met each other.  I do not think they will have much a view out their front window until spring.

Check out the snow on the trucks that have been parked for about a month, or maybe you cannot even find the trucks in the picture.

A summer and winter picture of the Arbourlight store.

 Another summer and winter picture of a place in town. 

Christmas Eve

I wanted to come back and post a few pictures from Christmas eve.  It is always such a magical time, and E always takes such care while preparing and setting out the special treats for Santa and his reindeer.

 Our Christmas tree

The bokeh tree

                       

The notes, milk and treats for Santa and his reindeer.

 The cupcake Christmas trees E made for the reindeer are mini ice cream cones turned up side down and covered with green frosting.  The orange on the trees are shredded carrots, as I hear it is a favourite among the reindeer.  There is also a little note explaining to Santa which plate is for him and which is for the reindeer.

                      

12 of 12 for 2012 January

A fellow photographer, Amy inspired me to do the 12 of 12 challenge this year.  I thought it was such a cool idea when I saw it on her blog.  So basically all you need to do is take 12 pictures on the 12th of each month and then post them to share with others.  They can be pictures of anything, and everything.   This month I sort of stuck with a winter/snowflake theme.

From left to right starting with the top row.
1.  My skiing snowman decoration.  The tree is down, but the snowman at still all out, but after all it is winter.
2.  A snowflake decoration
3.  Votive candle holder with a snowflake on it.
4.  A couple of snow covered pine trees.
5.  Hot chocolate with snowflake marshmallows.  The perfect winter drink!
6.  Icicles
7.  Close up of the snowflake decoration in 2 to show you how glittery it is.
8.  The snow on the balcony railing.
9.  A different glittery snowflake decoration.
10.  The scene on my decorative kleenx box.
11.  My figure skates.  Skating is a very big thing here in the winter.
12.  Just a different view of my hot chocolate with the home made snowflake marshmallows

Rainbows

Rainbows are bright and cheery so they seemed like the perfect way to kick off the new year. 

These pictures were taken back in August when we first moved to town, but it was such a beautiful vibrant sight how can I not share it with everyone. 

The first few pictures were taken at the end of the Portland Canal at the edge of town.

This was taken a between Stewart and Hyder along the Portland Canal.

Happy New Year!

I just wanted to take a moment to wish all my friends, family, clients and followers a happy new year.

Since it would not be right to have a post without pictures, I thought I would share a few from one of my favourite locations.