This morning when I drove into the drive where I was taking my class at I glanced in my rear view mirror and this is what I seen, a beautiful sunrise.
Once class was over, at about 3pm I was leaving and this was what it looked like...
It looked beautiful but it was freezing, the wind was blowing and visibility was poor. The traffic was crawling, the roads were like a skating rink before the Zamboni cleans the ice. The weather conditions added close to 3/4 of an hour to my drive so I had plenty of time to snap photos, we just weren't moving on one particular road. I noticed while I was sitting on the overpass that the traffic was backed up for miles.
What was interesting is that the traffic was only backed up one way. People going home after work, I guess that nobody lives in West Edmonton, that appears to be the only lane not congested.
The walks have been shoveled twice tonight and need it again but it's going to have to wait until morning now. Yup, just another winter day in Alberta!
Once again we are opposite ends of the spectrum. Today we had close to 40c - hot and humid - but a cool change has come thru and it's now raining. Did you read my post about my Granny news?
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photographs but more snow, blimey. We are meant to get some more but I hopefully doubt it.
ReplyDeleteDrive carefully and take care.
Si x
No I didn't read that yet Davine, I'm on my way to your site right now!
ReplyDeleteSi, and there's tons more of the white stuff today, YUCK, enough already! Cheers!
Gosh Darlin, beautiful to see, but not so easy to travel with the white stuff!
ReplyDeleteWe recently experienced it in the south west of England, caused enough disruption, but certainly not to the extent you have to cope with!
Great that you have camera and can make photos when in traffic jam. And great you do not sound nervous about the traffic. I needed several years to obtain this wisdom)
ReplyDeleteShirleyanne, driving in this stuff keeps life interesting... to say the least! lol
ReplyDeleteIrina, I hope that you had a wonderful Christmas, now I can take down my tree here. I like to leave it up until at least Jan.7. That and I just haven't made the time to take it down. I can get nervous in traffic, especially when I go into a skid, like I did yesterday but I just push through the fears, it's that or stay confined to my home and no way!
I love the second picture, the way you captured the falling snow. I think you and I are on the same weather system, cause for the past 6 days here, its been snowing more often than not. There are not a lot of places colder than central BC, but I do believe Edmonton is one of them!
ReplyDeleteThose pictures are amazing!
ReplyDeleteJoyce, I think that we get colder than the Antarctica here at times! Brrrrr. Thank you for the compliment on my photo, it's the awesome comments which keep me trying harder to shoot better photos... a part of it anyways. :-)
ReplyDeletePam, thank you!
Puff, puff ... that's me playing catch up again ;-)
ReplyDeleteI like (to look at) these winter scenes Darlene - love your late afternoon traffic shot - mainly because I'm not IN it - just kidding, it is a great shot. You'd think they could use the road space much better i.e. design them so all the lanes can be used for whatever direction everyone is going ! Sheesh.
Nice shot of you and your friend in your jammies ;-)
And a great story about you getting lost (used to happen to me too in Calgary's Plus 15 - and that's ABOVE ground !)
Rick, with the week I just had I know what the puff, puff is all about! lol
ReplyDeleteGetting lost above ground, ya done that as well before but not nearly as much lately. My sense of direction is getting much better. What I love doing (insert sarcasm) is losing my car in a parkade, now that's a good one! lol
Take care Rick, have an awesome day!