The other day we had a major snow dump. It cleared late in the day and got colder.
The sun set over a frigid world.
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Four Mile Bay
The launch ramp on Four Mile Bay on a day of snow flurries.
Almost monochrome.
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Later the Same Winter
The little decoration here is still making its contribution to the joy of winter.
I’ve had a bit of fun using filters to “jazz” things up.
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They’re Baaack!
Snowmobiles are once again leaving tracks on Four Mile Bay. The ice is safe enough here for the machines to run around.
The snow acts as an insulator and makes ice growth slower even though the temperature was -27C this morning.
I don’t intend to go walking anywhere on the lake for at least another two weeks. Give it time to thicken up. Like, a foot and a half of ice would make me feel pretty confident.
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Afternoon Shadows
Shadows in late afternoon on a perfect Northern Ontario cold day.
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Bus Shelter II
Last March this Bus Shelter attracted my attention.
Yesterday I made another photograph of it covered in snow. Just for fun I applied some different filters to produce this result.
Northern Ontario art?
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No Customers Today
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Disaster
Two nights ago the Cochrane Block, built in 1911 on North Bay’s Main Street, burned.
Two businesses occupied this building. Lefebvre’s Sports on this end and Vested Interest in the back of the building which opens onto McIntyre Street. Both businesses suffered devastating fire damage.
It seems that old buildings in downtowns everywhere suffer the same fate on a regular basis. It is always heart-rending when they do.
The pain lasts forever.
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Pine Grosbeak
We put up the bird feeder about two weeks ago and have seen the usual chickadees and nuthatches. We have also had a partridge come by occasionally. Yesterday this fellow showed up:
In spring the evening grosbeaks come by. This is the first Pine Grosbeak that I can recall seeing although we are well within its winter range.
It was about -25C and he was fluffed up to about double his size to keep warm.
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Cold Morning Relief
It is -25C outside.
To ease the pain, a little thought from Summer:
Be warm for a moment!
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Sheltered
Not far from the location of yesterday’s post is this little valley, sheltered from the wind.
Conditions here are much more hospitable for resting the winter away.
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Desolate?
The area near Barrie gets some fantastic snow when the northwest wind blows across Georgian Bay. The farm fields can be quite inhospitable to living things that stick up above the windblown surface. It’s also darn cold when the wind blows.
But there is a certain perverse beauty to the cold snow and minimalist landscape. Everything is dormant until next spring.
The land is resting.
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Not Sunny Today
But it was three days ago.
Bleached grasses on the shore of frozen One Mile Bay.
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