Beautiful/historical city/place around your place

[Roxy]

Well it's not really beautiful, or historical, but it's the snow around my place today:

Here's what it looked like at 8am this morning from our balcony:



And at 9am from my work:





There was more by 2pm when I had to go accross the street



And here's some I took on the way home at 5pm

[howdawg]

You poor thing! It's still snowing?

[Roxy]

Yes!! Anywhere between 10 and 20 more centimeters overnight!

Do you know how slushy that parking lot is when you have to walk through it lol - it's like a giant slurpee!!

[howdawg]

mmm slurpee... I mean.. Ewww!! I wish I had some snow!!!

[Roxy]

You can have this!! I don't want it lol

[howdawg]

Just scoop it up, put it in a box, and post it to me

[Roxy]

LOL and you'll be like "oh look, a box of water from B.C." "How thoughtful" LOL

[Tigerlily]

Wow! Snow in BC before PEI? I think that might be a first!

[Roxy]

LOL I was looking at the weather map today and it said Vancouver 0 degrees and Charlottetown 7 degrees. Ohhhhhh man. I coming back there!!

[Tigerlily]

Yeah, you can still go out with a sweater on (or a light jacket if you'll be out for long).

This time last year, I had to wear my winter jacket and mittens!

[Roxy]

It's a high of zero here tomorrow and a low of minus 9 tomorrow night. I was going to go out, but if the roads are too icey, I don't know if I want to stress myself out, doing too much driving in it.

[cedarblue]

i beg to differ roxy, they are beautiful snaps, especially the night time ones.
i guess snow is always lovely when its not you who's getting it.

do you work in the 7/11 store?

[Roxy]

It does look pretty nice this morning now that the snow has stopped. It stopped sometime during the night. It's not due to melt anytime soon though, with highs of minus 2 and 3 for the next couple of days

No, I don't work in the 7-11. I work in a store accross the street. I was standing at the front door, when I took that pic.

[RedWellies]

I like the night time ones too.

[Roxy]

Thanks girls

[Roxy]

I went to 2 local parks this afternoon, and took some more photos of the lovely snow for you I hope this isn't too many pics.

[Tigerlily]

Oh my gosh, that's so crazy!

[Roxy]

LOL No kidding!! It was minus 6 out there this afternoon. They say the wind chill was making it minus 18.....it was pretty cold, but not unbearably so. It's supposed to snow again tomorrow afternoon

[Tigerlily]

And they say we're suppose to get global warming?

[howdawg]

Wow Roxy! Those are beautiful! Send some snow this way soon!

[Roxy]

Thanks Howdawg It's going to snow here again today, so I'll ask Mother Nature to dump some over down your way too!

[cedarblue]

what wonderful photos roxy - especially the one of the river with the bridge over it and the close up birdy - is it a gull?

lovely snaps!

[Roxy]

Thanks Cedar

Yes it's a seagull. I feel so bad for them.....I'm not sure how they get food when their pond, and the ground is frozen.

[cedarblue]

this is the spooky monument.
its actually a 1st world war monument which is in the middle of a huge wood. it was once surrounded by some iron railings but these have fallen down now.
its only spooky because of its location - i thought it made a nice picture and had some historical value.
i love its sense of victorian gothic!

[Roxy]

Wow Cedar - that does look kinda spooky! Is it near your place?

[cedarblue]

its near my in-laws, about 10 miles away.
there are lots of sloe bushes nearby for making sloe gin, bramble bushes for blackberry picking and its just a great wood for walking in - *sigh* wish i had a dog to walk there.

i've also got a picture of a tree stump which looks like a five pointed star, like a pentacle...i'll try to find it.

[cedarblue]

found it!

[Roxy]

That is sooooo cool!!

[Hemlock]

Wow that is amazing!!!
As for Canada - I want to come and live there.....I will shortly be turning up on your doorstep with my suitcase

[Roxy]

Come on over!

[fiamma]

Those are beautiful pics Roxy, thanks so much for posting them. Tomorrow if the weather's good I'll take some pics of our medieval hamlet and Romanesque abbey and put them up. No snow as yet though...

[RedWellies]

Roxy, those pics are lovely!

Cedarblue, that tree stump is great!

I have loads of lovely places near me. I must get round to posting some pics to show you all.

[Roxy]

Thanks Fiamma and Red I'm glad you liked them. I had fun taking them, even though it was cold!

[cedarblue]

i am going try to remember to pop my camera in my bag when i go out regularly - you never know when a good shot will pop up!

keep snapping all!

[howdawg]

We finally got some snow!! These pictures aren't great, but I was so excited that I ran out back this morning to take them. They're from my parents' back yard.













Woo hoo!! I hope it lasts!

[RedWellies]

That's really pretty, Howdawg. I love the car one!! I don't think I'll be getting snow any time soon... too mild (10 degrees C) but wet and very windy!

[howdawg]

It's about -5 C here, but it's supposed to get up around 10 tomorrow and rain! My poor snow!

[cedarblue]

lovely snow snaps, especially the trees!

[howdawg]

Thanks

[Roxy]

YAY!!! Finally some snow for you!! Nice pics!

[veganavenger]

Had a bee-yootiful sunset up at Keele this evening, took these pictures on my phone, since I lost my digital camera. They don't do it justice.

[coconut]

Those are very nice pictures. I'm sure they'd look much better if I had a decent graphics card! There was a gorgeous sunset over Bristol earlier on too.

[Pisces]

Absolutely stunning! I'd say those pictures are keepers.

[Gorilla]

great pics veganavenger! i love sunsets (i painted one for my GCSE art exam )

[fluerpot]

WOW, really lovely pics, very romantic!

[xwitchymagicx]

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[Pisces]

Wow, I love the geese in the Trent Washlands!

[Roxy]

Great photos Witchy! Thanks for posting

[cedarblue]

the river welland pics are particularly lovely - develop that talent witchy!