Photo No. 6 of Study No 4 for 2023, Black and White photos. Because of the very strong winds this winter many trees or branches have fallen this season. I lost a cedar in my own backyard. Even sadder than climate change, I feel it's people's refusal to believe it is happening.

The weather forecast for tonight for Toronto is 30 cm of snow... Crazy weather.. and I was just curious to see with different settings how my camera would capture it. So keep on clicking. And from many that I have taken, I really liked this one.

A Blueberry Crop dusted by winter snow

Theoretically speaking, you could refer to this as an aerial

application - Just not from a plane :-)

Dormant blueberry bushes turn a beautiful shade of red throughout the winter

Leading lines to the British Columbia Coastal Mountains

Canada

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'You were born an original, don't die a copy'

Dormant blueberry bushes turn a beautiful shade of red. Snowcapped, under this purply coloured, evening sky

British Columbia

BC

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Winter's evening light, silhouettes (3) Weeping Willow trees in this wintry country scene.

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This excavator had a primary purpose as an earth mover, yet in this snow covered image - it looks like it could have been contracted out to dig through the freshly fallen snow.

Looks can be deceiving.

**Captured less than two weeks ago. The snow has since then melted and Spring appears to have arrived.

Excavators are heavy construction equipment consisting of a boom, dipper, bucket and cab on a rotating platform known as the "house". The house sits atop an undercarriage with tracks or wheels. They are a natural progression from the steam shovels and often mistakenly called power shovels. All movement and functions of a hydraulic excavator are accomplished through the use of hydraulic fluid, with hydraulic cylinders and hydraulic motors. Due to the linear actuation of hydraulic cylinders, their mode of operation is fundamentally different from cable-operated excavators which use winches and steel ropes to accomplish the movements.

Wikipedia

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'Why be a copy, when you were born an original'

White Rock’s Great Northern Railway station – now home to White Rock Museum and Archives

White Rock - City by the Sea - Waterfront

British Columbia

Canada

I added a little romantic ambiance to this very well loved Landmark

Bright Walk in White Rock. A magical winter light display, transformed White Rock’s waterfront into lighted display.

Ended Feb. 13

For an earlier look back into history:

www.peacearchnews.com/community/landmark-building-celebra...

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Ice, Snow & Fire

Pond freezing over

British Columbia Sundown

Canada

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Happy New Year 2023

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Love is in the air

BC

Canada

Canoe snowed in for the season

District of the South Cariboo region of the Interior of British Columbia, Canada.

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Somewhere between sundown and blue hour

Pitt Lake is the second-largest lake in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. About 53.5 square kilometres in area, it is about 25 km long and about 4.5 km wide at its widest. It is one of the world's relatively few tidal lakes, and among the largest. In Pitt Lake, there is on average a three foot tide range; thus Pitt Lake is separated from sea level and tidal waters during most hours of each day during the 15 foot tide cycle of the Pitt River and Strait of Georgia estuary immediately downstream.The lake's southern tip is 20 km upstream from The Pitt River confluence with the Fraser River and is 40 km east of Downtown Vancouver.

Pitt Lake is in a typical U-shaped glacial valley in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains. The overdeepening of the lower end of the valley over the span of the Wisconsin glaciation created a trough over 140 m below current sea level. After initial glacial retreat at around 13,000 years ago a saltwater fjord occupied this basin when relative sea levels were still ca 120 to 140m above current levels in the region. Unlike neighbouring Indian Arm and Howe Sound farther west, this fjord basin became partly cut off from tidal waters by sedimentation of the lower Fraser River ca 10,500 years ago, and Pitt Lake is now considered a tidal fjord lake.

Pitt Lake is the second largest of a series of north-south oriented fjord-lakes incising the southern slopes of the Pacific Ranges, the largest being Harrison Lake located 60 km to the east. The other fjord-lakes include Coquitlam Lake, Alouette Lake, Stave Lake, and Chehalis Lake.

The Pitt River drains into the northern end of Pitt Lake. The western shore of Pitt Lake are protected within Pinecone Burke Provincial Park, while most of the eastern shore are protected within Golden Ears Provincial Park. The southern end of Pitt Lake features an extensive marshland called Pitt Polder. While most of this marshland has since been drained for agricultural use, the northernmost portion is strictly protected in order to provide critical habitat for migratory birds.

Communities

The community of Pitt Meadows and the First Nations reserve of Pitt Lake Indian Reserve 5 are located at the southern end of the lake. Just southwest of the lake is the community of Port Coquitlam, which is across the Pitt River from Pitt Meadows. At the north end of the lake is a locality named Alvin, which is a transport and shipping point for logging companies and their employees.

Wikipedia

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Evening winter stroll

West Coast Winter

British Columbia

Canada

Stay healthy, be kind

~C

Dormant bluebery bushes turn a beautiful shade of red

under this winter blue sky

British Columbia

BC

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Calgary snow in September, this was an old shot but just looks like view from my window.

This was today's view of the tree tunnel on the Grant Side Road after last nights snow fall.

Tree framed winter scene - Wooden Barn

Canadian Winter

Coastal British Columbia Region

Canada

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Out for a misty winter hike

Rural Pitt Polder

British Columbia

Canada

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☛ Unusual fences in a snowy field of Ste-Eulalie, Quebec, Canada. A municipality of Central Quebec region, located 140 km east of Montreal.

☛ Des clôtures hors du commun dans un champ enneigé de Ste-Eulalie, Québec, Canada. Une municipalité de la région Centre-du-Québec située à 140 km à l’est de Montréal.

☛ Vallas inusuales en un campo nevado de Ste-Eulalie, Québec, Canadá. Un municipio en la región del Centro de la provincia del Quebec, 140 km al este de Montreal.

Photographed: Chenail lsland, Hawkesbury, ON

Quaint and inviting on a cold snowy night

Pitt Meadows

British Columbia

Canadian West Coast Winter

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Maple Ridge

British Columbia

Canada

Canadian West Coast Winter

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Frosty and Foggy layers.

Blueberry fields frozen in time. The time is New Year's Day - January 1st, 2018.

Pacific Northwest Winter

Candada

The heavy atmosphere blends the sky with the river boundlessly.

Pacific Northwest - Winter Fog

Fog:

A thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface that obscures or restricts visibility (to a greater extent than mist; strictly, reducing visibility to below 1 km)

Canada

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Moored in snow and ice

Kanaka (Haney)-Landing Harbour on the Mighty Fraser River

Maple Ridge

British Columbia (BC) or possibly radioed in as BRAVO CHARLiE :)

Canada

As per online information - Kanaka Landing Harbour Authority is a company governing under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act

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Canadian winter landscape

Canadian Winter

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Canadian West Coast Winter

The beginning of a snowfall. Brake lights reflect against falling snow...hence the warm toned snowflakes.

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Winter

British Columbia

Canada

• Old farm building in L’Épiphanie, Quebec, Canada. The Parish of L’Épiphanie, a municipality with an agricultural vocation was founded in 1854. L'Épiphanie is located on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, 50 km east of Montreal in the province of Quebec.

• Vieux bâtiment agricole à L'Épiphanie, Québec, Canada. La paroisse de L'Épiphanie, une municipalité à vocation agricole, a été fondée en 1854. L'Épiphanie est située sur la rive nord du fleuve Saint-Laurent, à 50 km à l'est de Montréal, dans la province de Québec.

• Viejo edificio agrícola en L'Épiphanie, Quebec, Canadá. La parroquia de L'Épiphanie, municipio con vocación agrícola, fue fundada en 1854. L'Épiphanie está ubicada en la costa norte del río San Lorenzo, a 50 km al este de Montreal, en la provincia de Quebec.

Last night cold temperatures arrived down to - 27C and - 32C with the wind chill this morning.

Snow flakes under the street light.

I wonder what's on the other side?

Rain frozen on a burning bush shrub and snow flakes in the air. Photo No 7 of Project No 4 for 2023 B&W photos.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnYSTnTMGQo

Each snowflake is unique.

They are beautiful...

And....I should save up for a macro lens.

#macromonday

White Rock is an oceanfront city in British Columbia, Canada, and a member municipality of Metro Vancouver.

The modern history of White Rock is directly tied to the railway linking British Columbia to Washington state, which runs along the shore of Semiahmoo Bay to the border. The rail is currently owned by BNSF Railway and runs alongside the promenade at the beach. This was originally the Great Northern line, and it opened up White Rock and Crescent Beach to tourists from Vancouver and New Westminster in the early 1900s. The border crossing closest to White Rock (at Douglas, B.C., and Blaine, Washington) was officially opened in 1908, and the Peace Arch at the border crossing was constructed in the 1920s.

In 1913, the present railway station was opened, and the Fox and Hunter Shingle mill began operation.

White Rock has a moderate climate, with average daily high temperatures of 23 degrees Celsius in summer and 6 degrees Celsius in winter.

White Rock is named for a distinctive large white boulder on its beach near the promenade, a glacial erratic that migrated south during the last glaciation. The 486-ton granite boulder was kept white by shellfish-eating seabirds whose guano covered the rock, so much so that 19th-century sailors used it as a beacon. However, it is now kept white through monthly applications of white paint by the city parks department, and has been a popular graffiti target for over thirty years.

Legend.

The large, white rock is mentioned in the legends of the local Coast Salish peoples. One legend says that the white rock marks the landing spot of a stone that was hurled across the Strait of Georgia by a young chief It was said that he and his bride would move from Vancouver Island to wherever the rock landed to make a home together.

Information complied from Wikipedia

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iPhone pic#4

My neighbour caught this moment in a gorgeous sunset on her phone on February 6.

Somebody in this house did mention that there were "some pinkish colours" over to the west of the house. Obviously he is the master of understatement..... and I continued on with supper making ... oblivious to the fact that this was taking place right outside the window!!!

I'm glad she took and sent a photo for me to see it....

Hope you enjoy it as well.

cross-country skiing

Gatineau Park - Canada

Kindness is like snow, it beautifies everything it covers. – Kahlil Gibran