I was having a chat with my friend +Alexa KH the other day and said that I was about to go out, though the visibility was poor because of the snow. I thought as I wasn't driving (!!) I would take the camera to show just what I meant by blowing snow on the roads. It wasn't actually snowing at that point (I don't think, it's not easy to tell sometimes) but the drifting snow makes it hard to see the edges of the road and builds up drifts that can go right across the road. You can see that the snow isn't even very deep. Ah, the joys of a Canadian winter! 🙂
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Great atmosphere.
Lovely +Ellie Kennard. Really captures the essence of winter – beauty and isolation.
I love your image of the canadian winter! :o)
I can almost feel the cold and the wind. Something that I miss here is the smell of snow since we don't have any here …
Aw thanks ! of course I'm glad too 🙂
I do recall such beauty and clarity…and lots of sparkles I think freezong pulls particulates out of the air. I bet you could get some awesome Milky Way shots in such conditions 🙂
I am spoiled, and prefer to always have 4wd, but then sometimes drive where most won't dare go 😉
No 4×4, just very good winter and ice tires. What I love is the weather which freezes the nose hairs of those who have them (as Steven tells me). When the sun shines on such cold day, there are little sparkles in the air, which is another lovely phenomenon. +D Stuart
Worst I ever saw was in Wyoming with 50-60 mph gusts. Not snowing, just moving it from one county to another.
I got to see frozen fog once too. It glitters in the headlamps. Pretty pea soup 🙂
Hope you have 4×4 🙂
Thanks a lot +D Stuart
The fading into the distance is exactly what I wanted to show. Although it makes for tricky driving (and slow).
I remember this stuff! So glad to see it from a distance 😉
I absolutely love how everything fades into the distance. Beautiful.
Good to see you out and about, Alexa 🙂
I'm so glad you do, +Alexa KH – you were the main reason I took my camera to get the photos. 😀 And I'm glad I did.
By the way I really love this wonderful shot 🙂
Thanks a lot +Giselle Savoie – I think there are a lot of roads that look like this at this time of year. At least in our part of the world. 🙂 (I didn't sneak into your area without dropping in for a chat, don't worry!)
Are you sure you that this road is at your place, looks just like the road here snow and all! Beautiful capture!
Thanks, Nimi. Glad you like it. +Nimi Rajesh​
Snow Land !! A great perspective!
Very true! Though I have spent a few years in the US of A, and have seen a fair bit of the stuff in my travels there and in Canada 🙂
Very true! Though I have spent a few years in the US of A, and have seen a fair bit of the stuff in my travels there and in Canada 🙂
+Abdalla Rogti thanks a lot! I'm glad you like it.
+Glen Schlueter 🙂 Real shock to the system. But I felt colder in England than I ever did anywhere else, including Finland and Montreal! It's the damp that gets you.
+Rekha Rao you could. Only it shifts and blows, the way fog doesn't. Is pretty treacherous too. Thanks Rekha.
Thank you +Sunny Wu
nice winter shot
Beautiful +Ellie Kennard .
You can even say it is fog, if you cover visible road part 🙂
Yep! At first hand +Ellie Kennard 🙂
Left nice warm Australia and landed in Toronto. Brrrrrrrr!!!!!!
Just wonderfull pic.
Have a pleasant day ellie kennard
+Glen Schlueter – I can tell you know it well! 😀
+Jacqueline Hodsdon – thanks a lot, Jacqueline.
Too scary for me to drive, you are right, Christina. Thanks for the comment, 🙂 +Christina Lihani
+Sumit Sen – maybe like an alien country to you, though maybe in the mountains you can get similar scenes, Sumit?
+Rob Patterson – you have indeed, and worse, I am sure. As have I!
+Sofie Løve Forsberg – thank you so much, dear Sofie. I'm glad you like it.
Alexa, I wanted it specially to show you. No, the snow isn't really deep at all at the moment. 🙂 +Alexa KH
It was, thanks a lot, +Jamie White
yup, thats cold. great photo though!
Aw looks really cold !! Even the snow is not so deep 😀
Best winter photo I've seen this year! Beautifully done, dear Ellie!
Brrrr !But super picture
Yep – been there, done that!! LOL 😀
Lovely! Gives me a great sense of what it is like.
It's beautiful and a little scary looking!
Wow! Looks terribly cold! Great shot! 🙂
Ah, Canada. The land of two seasons: winter and winter's coming :))