31 March 2011

Jet Stream Geometry



No. 6699 - 24 Mar 2011 - 19:09:18

30 March 2011

Song Sparrow

No. 6722 - 25 Mar 2011 - 12:00:23

A bag of sunflower seeds offers the opportunity to make new friends in the small patch trees of a back yard still covered in snow. I am not in the habit of feeding birds and worry about my human impact. Perhaps I need not, as their habitat is also mine, and the way in which they now sing outside my window, in anticipation of their supplement, makes me wonder who trains whom.

29 March 2011

Dun-dun Dun-dun


No. 6530 - 18 Mar 2011 - 15:23:35 * No. 6528 - 18 Mar 2011 - 15:23:45

Completely touched.

28 March 2011

Fenceline

No. 5727 - 24 Feb 2011 - 11:47:35

26 March 2011

Winter Remnants


No. 6812 - 26 Mar 2011 - 15:57:10 * No. 6823 - 26 Mar 2011 - 19:13:35

25 March 2011

Saturday Afternoon


No. 6826 - 26 Mar 2011 - 19:15:51 * No. 6831 - 26 Mar 2011 - 19:17:27

24 March 2011

Winter Wreckage

No. 6727 - 24 Mar 2011 - 19:22:53

23 March 2011

Black-capped Chickadee

No. 6632 - 21 March 2011 - 10:03:04

21 March 2011

20 March 2011

House Sparrow

No. 6591 - 19 Mar 2011 - 16:13:53

Anticipating Spring Equinox.

19 March 2011

Ice Fountain

No. 6450 - 16 Mar 2011 - 14:02:44

18 March 2011

17 March 2011

16 March 2011

Assiniboine


No. 5730 - 24 Feb 2011 - 12:28:13


No. 5159 - 08 Feb 2011 - 14:18:28 * No. 5182 - 08 Feb 2011 - 14:48:31


No. 4982 - 06 Feb 2011 - 13:41:05

15 March 2011

Lonesome

No. 6254 - 07 Mar 2011 - 16:18:31

14 March 2011

Various

No. 6372 - 12 Mar 2011 - 14:59:40

13 March 2011

Portage And Main


No. 6405 - 13 Mar 2010 - 16:46:31



Reputedly the windiest urban corner in Canada
and a fine place to fly flags.

12 March 2011

11 March 2011

Ellice Café


No. 6364 - 11 Mar 2011 - 16:32:30 * No. 6366 - 11 Mar 2011 - 16:40:25

After stepping out into a warmish winter day in Winnipeg
(three degrees centigrade - dressed for Spring)
and enjoying a couple of hours of hospitality and Wi-Fi at the Ellice Café, I was met at the exit by a ten degree drop in temperature and blizzard conditions.
The seven blocks back to my rooms wearing only a cotton jacket were not impossible until I remembered the house keys were still sitting in the pocket of my winter coat, on a hook by the door.
No one was at home and only after a couple of frantic calls, from my refuge at the 7-11 down the street, did I locate one of my young landlords who agreed to face the blowing snow and let me into their little West End house.
Greenhorn!

10 March 2011

Little West End House With Squirrel




No. 6323 - 08 Mar 2011 - 11:42:40

Small, clean, bright, and functional.

09 March 2011

The Time Is Now

No. 4945 - 16 Nov 2007 - 09:31:40

08 March 2011

Everyday Should Be Women's Day

No. 9500 - 14 Aug 2010 - 15:36:33

Posted, with respect to two of my favourite women, on
International Women's Day 2011.

07 March 2011

Starling


No. 6210 - 07 Mar 2011 - 11:59:46 * No. 6213 - 07 Mar 2011 - 11:59:53

With down and feathers fluffed up against the cold of the prairies, the tough and adaptable European Starling is noted for its ability to survive on this continent. It was introduced to North America in 1890 where it is now one of the most numerous of birds.

06 March 2011

Curved Corner

No. 6109 - 27 Feb 2011 - 17:49:01

05 March 2011

Woodpile

No. 5625 - 20 Feb 2011 - 15:28:02

One of the winners of Warming Huts v.2011, an "Art & Architecture Competition on Ice".

04 March 2011

Window On The River

No. 4677 - 30 Jan 2011 - 14:53:30

03 March 2011

Ice Crystals

No. 5735 - 25 Feb 2011 - 09:56:26

02 March 2011

Ice Wall





No. 5354 - 13 Feb 2011 - 15:06:04