Since we came home to Alberta we've been in the deep freeze. Overnight lows have been around -30ºC (-20ºF). So we've spent a lot of time indoors. It began snowing last Thursday, very light tiny flakes, hardly big enough to fall to the ground, but evidently they did because the snow cover began to grow.
We went to town on Saturday afternoon to visit the library and the grocery store--preparations for a house-bound weekend. Saturday evening the snow was coming down in big, fat flakes, thickly swirling.
By the time Sunday morning that it had warmed up to -22ºC I bundled up and went out to do some shovelling. I had made a deal with Jim: he would do the kitchen cleanup and I would do some shovelling. Twenty minutes later I had the path over the back patio to the driveway and the path from the backdoor to the garage door cleared. It felt really good to be outdoors and get some exercise. Here's the cleaned path. The snow on the driveway is between 6" and 10" deep.
It actually looks just beautiful outside with the smooth, fresh snow covering everything. Right now the sun is shining and the hoar-frosted trees shine with millions of diamonds.
Yesterday just before 6 p.m. I looked out the front window at the setting sun:
We went to town on Saturday afternoon to visit the library and the grocery store--preparations for a house-bound weekend. Saturday evening the snow was coming down in big, fat flakes, thickly swirling.
By the time Sunday morning that it had warmed up to -22ºC I bundled up and went out to do some shovelling. I had made a deal with Jim: he would do the kitchen cleanup and I would do some shovelling. Twenty minutes later I had the path over the back patio to the driveway and the path from the backdoor to the garage door cleared. It felt really good to be outdoors and get some exercise. Here's the cleaned path. The snow on the driveway is between 6" and 10" deep.
It actually looks just beautiful outside with the smooth, fresh snow covering everything. Right now the sun is shining and the hoar-frosted trees shine with millions of diamonds.
Yesterday just before 6 p.m. I looked out the front window at the setting sun:
The camera has a hard time capturing the full effect. There are no filters for this camera, but the right filter would have shown the setting sun as a big, very red ball.
The scene out the back door was also inspiring:
A big, luminous moon was rising as the sun was setting. What glory!
When I was up during the night around 3:30 a.m. the entire landscape was glowing in the moonlight. How beautiful!
When we are in Arizona we don't see much of the sky. We miss sunrises, sunsets and seeing the moon. Here in Alberta we are treated with a 360º view of the horizon and the big, big sky overarching it all.
Just now the neighbour's hired man arrived in a Bobcat and began plowing out our driveway. We have wonderful neighbours, a farming couple, young enough to be our children, and the young man doing the bobcat work is younger than some of our grandchildren. We are blessed to have ended up here, among these terrific people!
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