These Pictures Were Taken Today

Yup, it's the middle of April! :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lights Out

I know that every other tweet is about the snow. But it has been a little crazy this year. I took these pictures last Saturday when we were getting so much.

This is what it looks like today. The lights are missing. To put it in perspective, the lights stick up about 2 feet out of the garden and the garden is about foot or more above the ground. As I always say.. the pictures don't really convey how much is on the ground.

Snow Day In May

:|

Front Yard:

Back Yard:

Canada Is Doing It Wrong

I don't think Canada knows how to "do" Spring. On Saturday, we woke up to this. It made me scream some expletives into a pillow. Nice way to start the day... 

It continued to snow on and off throughout the day. I filmed this little bit in the afternoon. Seriously? Seriously.

Ian Gets His Shovel On

Another Snow Day!

Beautiful Morning

(Picture heavy post...) We woke up to an awesome morning... Ice fog had settled in our area and the pictures I got were stunning. I just have a point and shoot so they aren't as detailed as they could be with a really nice camera. But there were quite a few cars and people on the road doing the same thing we were. This was the first thing I saw:

I scampered out front and took a bunch of pictures. This is a closeup of the light by the garage. It's covered not nearly as much as other things... but gives you an idea.. basically little snowflakes attached to everything.

This is the front tree and grasses.

The sideyard trees and wrought iron fence were pretty coated.

The downspout near the front porch had some icicles coming out of it. Those were covered as well.

Here is the front of the house.... what you can see over the snow banks and through the fog.

Thankfully Ian was game for a Starbucks run. Oh, who am I kidding? Ian is always up for a Starbucks run! We knew that our favorite road would be beautiful. It didn't disappoint. 

Ian was my chauffeur. 

This is the field just outside the favorite road - a fair amount of snowmobile tracks.

Back down the road again...

This was down by one of the ponds. 

And I think this is the best picture. Hopefully the resolution is good enough... I am thinking about having this printed on canvas. So pretty!

I did take a video... it was from the car so it's a little shaky. Ignore the sound... it's just loud with the wind.

Crazy beautiful, eh?

Snowmageddon Update

Ian and I barely survived the day. It was hellish. Covered in blankets. Working from home. Warm house. Pfft. Crazy!

Backyard Update - Owly is very buried... He might become unburied tonight because of the blowing snow.... but he is most certainly not  happy.

The bushes at the edge of the garden wall are almost covered!

For whatever reason.. we decided to LEAVE THE HOUSE. (Missing an onion for dinner = doing weekly shopping on snow day). It was certainly interesting... Ian shoveled again before we left... it was about another inch on the driveway. 

This is the good road. Same with all the pictures.. it doesn't do it justice. It was fairly deep and pretty scary when another car came from the opposite direction.

Most of the trees look like this:

And we saw a couple of these: 

View while driving up our street. It seemed to be snowing harder at this point. Pretty sure the snow in the air right now is just blowing snow.

Ian took the second shift for shoveling. This time he didn't have the help of the nice neighbors. He said there was about 6 inches of snow on the sidewalk. (Yes, he is wearing his Quatchi hat!)

Pretty sure we are getting a snowblower next winter...