A week before christmas this is the view I got from my house, it’s a perfect winther day with
-15 degrees celsius and sunshine. I can not get better! Also this is the landscaper that I get inspired by. The pictures where taken about 2pm so the sun is all but gone.
Now, whats it like where you live?
My house:
I don’t have a picture, but we got about 5-6 inches of snow last night, then some rain. It is about 2 degrees celcius, dropping to 11 below by tommorow. Snow all around, cloudy skies, and I don’t have any of the parts I need to work on my Railroad :(!
Same here in Maritime Canada, we got snow then freezing rain then rain then temperatures below freezing. Everything outdoors is rock hard today, glad I cleared our driveway and walkway last night before it froze.
Here is a shot looking out our backyard during the snow Sunday afternoon:
There was already a fair amount of snow on the ground from the past two weeks.
I hate winter!
I just snapped this looking out my computer/diecast car room. Thats Lake Ontario in the back ground. We got about 8 to 10 inches of snow yesterday but some of the drifts were HUGE. My GMC Extended Cab 4x4 got buried in a drift that was right over the box. Thank god for 4x4’s and snowblowers, lol.
I haven’t figured out the whole posting pictures thing yet - but here in the Twin Cities in Minnesota we have about 6 inches of snow - but some great open ice on Lake Minnetonka! I might get the ice boat (sail boat on skates) out over Christmas week.
you means theres an outside world?[:-^]
Apparently some open water now too - I see a few days ago some yahoo had their pickup go thru the ice while ice fishing on a local lake !![#oops]
We call it the “prototype” world. It’s that idealized place that Plato wrote about, and we had to study in college. It is the basis for all model railroads, regardless of era, even though the prototype world is limited to one era (The Present.)
The Prototype World is that place you drive through to get to the LHS. The UPS truck drives through it to bring things you order online, as well. While the Prototype World does not seem particularly necessary to most of us, in reality, without it we would have a hard time modelling. For one thing, the power we use to run our trains is actually generated in the Prototype World.
No snow here in Vegas. [8D]
One word.
WET!
Just the usual dessicated desert, covered with too many subdivision houses, too close together (and, in places, too many casinos, too close together!)
There is snow on Mount Charleston, though.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Looks uncrowded here. Not bad for California. 2 hours from Los Angeles and we have no traffic, no crowds, no noise. Affordable housing and no ice storms or snow. Must be the best kept secret in Ca. Happy Holidays,
glenn
We had a bad snow storm yesterday, 16 to 20 inches of the stuff. This is how it was this morning.
A view of the rear patio
What you see is a 4x4 off road vehicule and the trailer to tow it.
This is what we got when we opened the door to the driveway.
Some shoveling will be required to move the cars out.
White.
We just got 10-12 inches here in Michigan. It is the most we have had in a long time.
Here’s what the genereal landscape looks like in our area along with some Lewis and Clark commemorative sculptures decorated unofficially by my wife.
Here’s my yard with the neighbor kids playing in what little snow we have had so far. We have generally mild winters here in the valley. The temps are 32F nights and around 40F days.
We came to Hendersen to visit my sister in law a few years back. It was some time in late February. While we were there, it snowed in Hendersen and Las Vegas. Meanwhile, it was 65 degrees back in Minnesota! Go figure!
No pics,
But in Southern Wisconsin we have a little bit of open water, 12 to 18" of the white stuff, with another 2" on the bottom of that and another 3" layer somewhere in the middle. No snowblower and my shovel is getting worn out, on the plus side I have lost 5 lbs due to shovelling it’s not all bad.
Not as much as some, but enough that it makes you want to not get out of bed!
Not much railfanning happening either!
Right now it’s 49 degrees and sunny in western Arizona…should be 60 degrees today…
This was two weeks ago, the early morning after a storm that precluded our Saturday evening performance of “Messiah.”
It is my ocean-side yard overlooking the Strait of Georgia between Vancouver Island and the Mainland. Vancouver is in the far distance, slightly left, about 70 miles.
Two days later, at approximately the same time, early morning, I imaged a different day.
