Snow panoramas

11am, Jan 26th, 2010

We had a sudden round of snow flurries around 11am. It looked like a snowstorm, but it was very short-lived.
5pm, Jan 26th, 2010

Of course, the flurries were very brief and we received less than 1 cm of the white stuff. This photo shows that it didn't even cover some of the slope on the hill that was exposed by the warm weather and rain.

Not snowing... yet!

Pano January 6, 2010

I took this photo out over the back yard because the sky was so very dark. It's not snowing at the moment, but snow is forecast. If we don't get any snow today then it will be the first day it hasn't snowed this year.

Update: it didn't snow after all, so the "it snowed all year" jokes have to stop now...

Snowfall pano - Feb 22/09

Pano from porch in snowfall - Feb 22, 2009

Fun winter day

This is a view of the Christmas lights we put up outside. I have several strings of red lights that run along the driveway, these help me know where the driveway is when I am doing the snowblower when it is dark and the snow is blowing. On the tree I had hung up several strings of red, green, purple, and pink. I have no idea why the purple ones look blue and the pink ones look purple. If you know, please leave a comment. These are all the LED lights, so the colours are nice and bright and pure.

We went for a walk on the lake. Tawny, Taz, and Max had a fun time running and sniffing.


We saw these bush wolf tracks when we were walking on the lake. We know they are bush wolf tracks because Freda saw the wolf crossing the lake this morning.

The wind made interesting sculptures in the snow. The weather had been very cold, so the particles of snow were quite fine and could blow around quite easily. In some places, the drifted snow was quite dense and could easily support Tawny and Taz without them breaking through.


Tawny and Max sniffing, because that's what dogs do best (besides eating, and besides looking cute, and besides sleeping, and besides playing, and besides... well, you get the idea).


Here we are walking home, and Max is jumping around Tawny, who is tired and doesn't appreciate his energy, she probably was thinking, "Youth is wasted on puppies." Taz had lots of energy to growl at Max, telling him to behave in dog talk.

Some Downy woodpeckers have been visiting our feeder. Although they have eaten at the bell shaped seed hanging in the orange mesh bag, they prefer the suet feeder. We have seen these woodpeckers banging away at some older trees in our "forest", and also on other peoples' property.


After a hard day's play, it's time for sleep.

After 20 cm of snow

We were forecast to get 20-30 cm of snow, but we supposedly only received 20 cm of the white stuff. You can see that we did get some in this pano of the sunset, but not a whole lot.


After a strenuous play, both Tawny and Taz are enjoying their supper. This is actually a rare scene at our house because Taz has such a strange eating schedule. Tawny - not so much: put some food in front of her and she eats it.