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Only In Canada
I came across this sign while walking through the truckers’ protest in downtown Ottawa. I had to look twice to make sure I understood. As far as I can tell, someone is trying to sell a snowbank on the side of the road. Can that really be the case? I doubt there were any takers. […]
Black Forest In Winter II
Took my camera instead of just my phone. And a different trail from the one in the previous post. A day later, there had been more people out – I wasn’t breaking new ground through the snow. In some places I could see that there are cross-county skiers in the area. I wonder how often […]
Black Forest In Winter I
I’ve seen pictures from years gone by, but this was the first time I experienced it myself. In this fashion anyway. I’ve walked through the Black Forest in winter before, but this month was the first time I was able to do so in snow. Needless to say, it was quite different. I think Sulzburg […]
First Snow
“Take your boots back to Canada,” my wife told me in November. “You are never going to use them here.” The winter boots are an ongoing joke. I bought them in the fall of 2017, making sure I was prepared for the winter all my German friends assured me was coming. Except it didn’t. Throughout […]
Welcome To Winter
It is official. Winter starts today, just as this post is being published. I timed it that way. The forecast high of two doesn’t seem overly wintery. However, there is snow on the way, perhaps ten centimetres on Christmas Eve. That does seem like Winter. Not that the Winter Solstice means much in terms of […]
Heat of Summer
It has been hot in Sulzburg this past week, hotter than I like. Sometimes it feels like the heat has me moving in slow motion. There’s nowhere really to cool off. It isn’t like you can go to an air-conditioned movie theatre. They aren’t open. There is a natural pool of sorts on the outskirts […]
Memories of Winter
I’m back in Germany, where if there was a winter of 2019-20 it is long gone. It was minus nine Celsius when we boarded the plane in Ottawa, plus 13 when we arrived in Basel Switzerland (the closest airport) too many hours later. Winter was late arriving in Canada – I was wondering at […]
Anticipation
Fresh snow, sunshine and snowshoes – all you need for a fun winter’s day. In my younger days I had my own snowshoes, the more traditional wooden kind with rawhide webbing and lamp-wick bindings. We wore soft mukluks, not hard winter boots that would hurt the webbing. Those old snowshoes were wider than these […]
Let It Snow?
Finally! Though I’m not sure I like it after all. All this fall I have been telling people how much I was looking forward to a Canadian winter, that the area of Germany we live in lacks winters, and my new boots are still in their box more than two years after I bought them. […]
First Snow
Woke up to this scene Wednesday morning. A smattering of snow had fallen overnight. I knew it was a possibility at this time of year, but must admit I hadn’t been checking the forecast, so it took me a little by surprise. I expected it all to melt during the day, but some of it […]
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