January - snow

We have snow!!!  Of course we all freeze in place for a day! But by the next morning the radio broadcasts are telling us that all the schools, and everything else, is business as usual.  All the photographers go crazy with trying to get the best exposure for the snow while it lasts.  I have a bizillion photos of birds and kids.  :))  I love the contrasts of the colors against the black and white.
By tomorrow, the snow will be gone.  It is raining and sure to wash it all away in a day.

More of the March 7th snow

More photos from our momentary snow on the 7th of March.

The ladybug opens up and there is a tiny space inside. I have a collection of little boxes. Some as keepsakes from places we have travelled. The collection is going to be in my 'pass through' new cabinet and will be visible from the living room and from my room. The ladybug box was in a giftshop in the Tillicum Mall. I could not resist it. It is my favourite box at the moment.

In looking at the site meter of my blog this morning, I found that My Garden is an author on this new website: metrocascade. Since they seem to be using my posts under Gardening, I guess I should be entering some Gardening information!! So, I signed on to their site. I don't know if I should attempt to post to their page, or if I should just keep adding any information to my blog.

Snow

This is a photo of the late afternoon light behind the snowy trees to the south across the road from my dining room window on the 22nd of December. Too bad about all the power lines. Since the 26th the snow has been melting, the temperatures have been near 0 and a bit higher.

We were out to MacMorrans last night with Colleen and John. Pat has a nasty cold so this dinner out was not a great success for us. Of course, it was dark out and we could not see the ocean. There were very few people out. C and J go home today.

I now have the dishes moved out of the cupboard above the dishwasher, and have the glassware and crystal moved out of the cupboard above the kettle, except for what we are going to use daily. I move a few things everyday, which makes it all a bit easier than rushing to do it all at once.

I downloaded google browser 'chrome' ... it is easy. I will probably still use my old Firefox for now though. I will probably upgrade my firefox in January.

Christmas

This is one of the water iris in the tub on the deck. All the snow is slowly melting. We are to have above 0 temperatures over night and tomorrow. We had a tiny bit of rain today, not really enough to wash away very much snow, though.

Our Christmas duck dinner with John and Colleen was really quite a lot of fun and easy to do. We tried to see the lights on Alan road and Ponderosa Place. There were a few cars out, but the streets were pretty much impassable. There was no enthusiasm for getting out to take photos, either. Today we are to meet them and perhaps cousins down at the Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner. Another lazy day! Life is good!

Snow, oh no, Snow in Victoria

We are going to have a white Christmas this year. We have had 2 to 3 feet of wet, heavy snow dumped on us. One of the pictures shows big fat snow flakes falling against the Eucalyptus tree. Tara, Andy and Pat have been shovelling off the driveway. Today we actually had a snow plow down our street. The other main roads where the buses go have been clear and wet/icey. Tomorrow we are to get more of the +3 temperatures with just below 0 over night. There were big clumps of snow falling off the trees today. I have not gone out to see the damage on the hedge. We are to get more snow on Wednesday and much the same temperatures.

I have been trying to catch a few photos of the birds. There are quite a few different kinds of brown birds out there. Wrens, juncos, sparrows of several kinds, and the hummers.

Tomorrow we get our lost piece of carpet! Sure hope its a good match for the color in the rest of the area. Would sure hate to have to wait another 2 months for this stuff. You would think, that in this down turn of the economy that there might be quicker installation times, if nothing else. I can't imagine why it took so long to get the carpet delivered to the store. They seem to have several levels of people to deal with and nobody gives anyone else any information. I have to tell the story to each one of them that calls about it.

Snow

Last night we began to get snow and this morning there was about 8 - 10 inches piled up everywhere. My waterfall is running and keeping the water open. Its quite a contrast between the dark water and light snow. I am pretty happy with this shot.
The Anna's Hummingbirds stay around all winter. I have been trying to get a photo of this bird for 2 months now. This morning I finally got a semi decent photo of it. It has its feathers all fluffed up and is not wasting energy flying. I refilled the feeder and the bird was back for a few sips all day. I did not manage a flying photo of it, though. It sits on the perch at the feeder to eat, so I would really have to be fast to catch it flying. The background is too light because of the snow on the branches of the trees.

Yesterday I loaded the Vilnius photos to my Multiply Travel album. I shall do the Amsterdam ones and then have the 2008 trip up on line, at least, if not on my own home page. They are on my blog, also.

I have my Flickr groups and comments pretty well caught up and had some time to surf around at bit. I followed a comment on my stuff back to the commenter's photostream and found some really nice Carlsbad caverns stuff, and another girl had some excelent stage shots of some band.

There was snow

Last week we had a bit of snow. It stayed icy for a couple of days, but is gone now. We had some high winds today and rain. The ferries missed a couple of runs and there has been a few people without power due to falling trees.

I got a couple of chores of the day done today. Finally got the tub cleaned up. Now the rest of the bathroom needs a good going over too. I see the filter thing is fuzzy.. I don't think I can reach it though, without the step ladder. Must get my high maintenance man to look at it. I finished washing the camping towels and bedding. We have the van home now and it looks good in there. So much white stuff! We are going to get some sort of carpet to cover all the light colored floor coverings... something we can take out and wash, to protect the white stuff. The cupboards are glaring white too. I am thinking of painting, but probably won't do it.

Snow, oh no, oh no.

We had about 10 inches of heavy wet snow today. It is brighter out now, at nite. I hope it doesn't ruin my hedges again.

I made another big apple pie today. We are fortunate not to have suffered any of the power outage or flooding.