agoodwinsmith | Bonus Day of the Happy

First, the happy: today was the last day of work for me until 05 January 2009. What's not to be happy about that?

Next, the photos. We've been having very uncharacteristly cold weather here in Lotusland. Not that we never have freezing weather, and not that we never have snow, but we usally do not get extended cold combined with snow. Snow falls, causes havoc for 12 hours, and then has the decency to melt. This time it snowed, melted a sniff, snowed some more, and then has been below zero for around a week. Today was minus 7 celcius and it was bloody cold. I've lived on the prairies (okay, not for long, but still), and this feels colder than minus 18 celcius. I think it is the insidious moisture that penetrates every layer of clothing down to your skin, giving the cold a freeway straight to your shrinking flesh Brrr.

So anyways. Early in November I took you on the walk into Granville Island here:
http://agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com/62332.html#cutid1

Here is the same walk yesterday:

Yes, here we have crossed Granville Street Bridge, walked through the underpass and are now walking (gingerly) through the green space of the traffic clover leaf down to 4th Avenue:

It isn't any safer to cross 4th that it was before, in fact less, because people in SUVs *really* *REALLY* hate to have anything as paltry as the weather hold them from their self-appointed rounds. Ahem.

Now we are walking under the place where the elevated portion of Hemlock joins Granville Street Bridge:

We doesn't plow snow here or shovel sidewalks because it is going to melt. Any minute now, you just watch. Any minute.

Now we are walking through the access way between the apartment building, heading towards the wooden foot bridge:

Any minute. The melting will wash you away in the flood of decrytsalized snow.

Closer to the footbridge:

Brr even.

And now on the footbridge looking across the pond that has no geese or ducks at this time - they know it ain't gonna melt.

I think people have been throwing snowballs into the pond. I'm hoping it is not ducks falling through.

And finally, the cement plant yet again, with ECU just in the right side of the shot:

Lovely snow that will be melting momentarily.

A final shot come from two days earlier when the pond had just started to get a think skim of ice on it.

You previously saw it here:
http://agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com/63049.html#cutid1

Sixth shot down, and of "the windy wind".

Wasn't that nice?

We have been threatened with more snow, and no change in temperatures. Chilly chilly chilly.

EDIT - again, I am creating one cut with everything in it. I dunno what lj is doing, but it can bloody well stop it. If I had made more than one lj cut - I would at least have thought of more original names. Humph.

EDIT EDIT - lj just does its own thing, sort of like a two year old. Trying to get rid of excess spaces just caused some of the comments to fall outside of the cuts. I ain't twiddling with it any more.