Some crazy weather we’re having here in the Big Smoke. Melting. Freezing. Ice breakup in the bay. Freezing again. Last night, snow. Then rain. Temperatures expected to moderate this week. Doesn’t seem to phase our local feathered friends, especially the mallards. They continue to stand around in the parking lot, barely moving when a car […]
Today we finally came out of a long stretch of the greyest, most dreary weather I can remember having in some time. And this at a time when we in the frozen east have been seeing glorious pictures of the sun splitting the stones at Whistler, where many of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics are being […]
If you have seasonal affective disorder, I sure hope you have a sunlamp! Not a scintilla of sunshine in our neck of the world today. Looked in several locations for a glimpse of colour other than the browns of sleeping vegetation and the dull greys of the sky, lake and most everything else today. Best […]
It was a frozen and nearly silent world that greeted me when I went for my walk today near sundown. The sun peeked out for a moment here and there, long enough for me to get this picture of a common goldeneye, (Bucephala clangula). The goldies are cousins to the most adorable ducks in the […]
Frozen! I thought these bluish icicles were particularly lovely in the warming rays of the late afternoon sun today. There were only a few bushes that had these ice sculptures on them. It seems there had to be the exact combination of sun, wind and warmth to get the formation of these long icicles. The […]
