Schnee von Gestern

Nach West

Gestern und Heute

Nach Norden

Und Heute

Rund um Null Grad - nicht plus 24,7°C Du Arme Schwein!

KAV

Earth Hour Part II - the Condo

Part I with Intro can be found here,

Today I want to look at north facing side of our condo, the side on which we also live.

Before Earth Hour started at 20:30 this is how the building appeared, with west being to the right and east lying to the left.

That is bearly the complete north facing side of the building and easy to see in the twilight.  Sunset was off to the right edge about an hour before.

Here are some more detailed shots from west to east:

About 20 minutes later, around 20:31 the 2 scenes look like this_

The upper corners, both west and east show less light.

At 20:57 floor 5 left of the  centre vertical column now has an extra bright light:

I was puztzled by this since I saw the light being turned on with a person in the middle of the room. The person turned and appeared to walk away/out of the room never to be seen by me during the rest of the evening.

At 21:13 not much change -

Ar 21:21 similar:

And then finally at 21:33, after Earth Hour was over:

The top floor lights at the west end are back on.

This year I bought and used a sky brightness meter. I'll link to its use and table the results another day. I wrote down the readings at the time so my memory is not involved.

WOB

Knock, knock; who's there?

Closer to home:

The flowers pots are gone, just the leaves left.

 - what winter winds could not achieve, May could. (March winds, April showers, May flowers - I'll have to wait to see.)

W A S

Pea Soup

Now, don't get me wrong - I like pea soup.

I came down to ground level to get beneath some of the layers of fog - mist actually because it was raining.

4 photos of the Leacock peninsula, and the last/above to toward the public beach just 200m away but out of sight this afternoon.

I then went for a walk in the lake and a swim in our pool.

W O Birrrd

Foggy - condo

And the only thing I did wrong was to save her from the foggy foggy dew

I ran in the morning. I biked in the afternoon. I swam at night.
And the only, only thing that I ever did wrong

was to save her from the foggy foggy dew.

W O B

Saturday afternoon at Leacock

I have been quiet - cannot decide whether to continue with the western tour or return to Knossos and the
May tour - any suggestions?

Went out late this afternoon to watch the lighting change over Leacock Museum. Looked at the remains of the last snow:

Looked back at our place:

Looked out toward the north east:

I took some 55 images but no real inspirational ones.

wob

Sunday Part II Afternoon walk to Leacock and back

OK, one ought to do part II second but I want you to be able to scroll along chronologically.. So here
is "now" Sunday afternoon. The Leacock estate ajoins our property. If I walk with dry feet I have to go
along the road. I'll spare you that. The following made impressions on me:

I do not know if they would have attacked me but we were going in opposite directions sooooo ...!

(An aside for my friend, Hagi: if you want to impress your Canadian colleagues start quotingStephen Leacock's "Sunshine Sketches of A Small Town" - Orillia, and he lived here; he write some of his stories in this boat house. It has since been moved to this spot and rennovated. Hummmm ?)

I actually went to this spot deliberately to see if the crayfish had turned "blue" - not yet but maybe in a week or so:

The ice had broken up under the boathouse but a few meters away it looked like this:

It is a blog like this that should make everyone thank Jens for keeping their mailboxes this free of spam!
The ducks took to the water like

And now for view toward "home" from Leacock's arbour in front of his house:

That was the west and south facade. We live on the "other side" where the snow is:

I took some more photos - spare me! wob (I did, honestly!)