• Weather,  Winter

    Winter Snow Storm

    Whew – we just got whacked again! On Friday we bundled up the family and headed off to my mother-in-laws home somewhat south of Ottawa. We arrived just as the snow started. It finally stopped snowing early this morning (Sunday.) Then the work began.

    The first picture is of the snowplow stuck in the driveway.  He to be towed out. That’s our car buried in a drift to the left of his truck.

    The second picture is The Boy playing on top of the cars in the driveway. Cool, eh?

    Again – I have to say it … where is that global warming everyone keeps carrying on about?

    Snow Storm 1

    Snow Storm 2

  • Boat Life,  Nature

    Visiting Snowy Owl

    “Now there’s something you don’t see every day!”

    As I stepped off the boat to goto work (late, as usual) this big boy was sitting on an ice flow just behind the boat. While I went back in to grab my camera, he took up a perch on an electrical box on the dock across from us. I’m not sure how common Snowy Owl’s are here, but this is the first one I’ve seen in 17 years here in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area.)

    Any ornithologists out there? How common is this bird in Toronto?

    Snowy Owl 1

    Snowy Owl 2