day 386 - winter wonderland

using the fish-eye effect of my new canon point and shoot, this was yesterday morning's scene at that parkette near my apartment building - with the sunrise at the top of the roofs of the townhouses, the white snow on the ground and on the grass and trees, it was really winter wonderland.

day 385 - here we are again

in day 229 and day 283 we've seen these guys in their fall season get up. so now, here they are after that snowstorm last night, all decked in snowy ice that would soon melt.

day 372 - mini icicles

we had a thawing period during the weekend and then it got freezing again today. this was what's left of the melting ice from yesterday. damn! i haven't captured any real icicles yet this year. but then again, at the same time, i don't want it any more freezing cold than it is now. say, why don't we just bring in the sunshine, huh?

day 363 - testing the newly-found knowledge

as in newly-learned knowledge in taking photographs with two smart kids from work. we went to henry's, paid a not-so-serious sum of $75 to learn mostly what we already know, and forget the new ones just learned. bien, c'est la vie! so we hung around the Metropolitan United Church and despite the snow that had started to fall, we took some pictures.

day 361 - the danforth after the "snowcalypse"

yes, it was overhyped, that big snowstorm. in the end we only got about 15 cm. of the white stuff, and this morning the sun was shirning brightly and warmed up so most of the stuff started to melt.

but look at this photograph, using my new gizmo (see day 361). one shot and i got the other side of the danforth. in my old olympus i'd get only 2/3 of the scenery. sweet!

day 345 - coke on ice (or in this case, IN ice)

someone, obviously a slob, left this can of coke on the edge of the planter in front of the building. then the snows came, on two consecutive weekends, and nobody dared touch it to discard it. i know i won't, even if the germs are all frozen and what not. but then it made photo of the day for me.

day 136 - donkey kone

the darn ice-cream man bolted right in front of our van, sans his music. the nerve!

day 20 - memories....

putting all these behind us...the rain came today and it's all gone....ne me quitte pas!

NOT!!! bring on the sunshine, i say.

day 19 - it ain't over 'til it's over

old man winter lets it known to mankind, at least us, that he ain't leaving anytime soon even though we're sick and tired of the cold. last night it snowed but this is all we got. but it was darn cold, -9 C, the windchill factored in, -17 C. i don't mind so much the cold, it's the wind and the ice that i dislike.