Category Archive for 'Farm'

evening visitor

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

A couple of days ago, while I was washing vegetables at the kitchen sink, I caught sight of something moving around on the side of one of the trees in the back garden. I grabbed my camera and shot a couple of photos. The visitor turned out to be a Raccoon hanging from […]

snow world

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

On March 8th, I wrote about the rapidly increasing snow around the farm. Over the past couple of days, the mild weather has knocked the snow back quite a bit. However, we’re still left with heaps of it everywhere we look. Yesterday, driving through the parking lot of a large shopping […]

snow update

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

As of yesterday, the Environment Canada data website indicates that we’ve had 373.7 cm (147.12 inches, or, if you prefer, 12.26 feet) of snowfall in Ottawa this winter. As of yesterday, the site shows 56 cm. (22.04 inches) of snow on the ground. I don’t know where they’re measuring that, but it is […]

how deep is the snow?

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Yes, two posts in one day. Chalk it up to me finally getting my photo editing software working again (see previous post from this a.m.).
In the comments to my February 9th post, Wayne from Niches asked:
Snow! Take pictures of snow for your poor sweltering neighbors far to the south who only want a […]

still here

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Over the past couple or so days, in comments left at this post, there were a couple of queries as to where I’ve gone (hi Clare). Well, I’m still around, but not as active in my usual ways, so things have almost ground to a halt in the blog posting department. This is […]