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My daughter sledding....thinking she could use a sled like a snowboard....well, not for long! :-)
Happy Holidays! I wish everyone of my Flickr friends all the best in the New Year, and I look forward to your photos.
I'll be off and on for the next week, as I am enjoying time with my family. Peace and Joy to all!
this sled belongs to the kids that live next door
big snow piles like this one are still everywhere, but you can see the grass now in the sunnier areas
Perfect timing for play! "“The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.” by Plato.
In the southern part of the province, we called it "sledding" while the north uses "sliding". This is my oldest daughter, aged 4 or 5, in the late 1990s, pulling her sled and ready to go back up the hill. Merry Christmas, everyone!
We would see these sleds here and there along highway 510 in Labrador. I'm guessing the owners leave them there till next winter. They must tow them behind their snowmobile when going ice fishing. Nice to be trusting that nobody will take it.
Shot with a Carl Zeiss Vario Sonnar 3.4/35-70
The H.S. football team is out practicing this summer and anticipating the new school year. I saw this football blocking sled and thought--my kind of sledding! Are you ready for some football?! 😊
After B09 got out of Harbor Belt territory, I initially planned on chasing them toward Otis to get some last light glint. But I was hesitant because I read that this crew is normally on duty at 0500, which set them up to certainly run out of time before then. So I made a rash decision to change course and head to very unscenic Pine Junction a mere three miles east of the last shot. And wouldn't you know that they certainly did not go on at 0500 - as sure enough I received word that they had hit Otis Hill in the golden light. Oh well, at least I caught them, and more shots for another day!
Here's a better look at the -coil- aspect of the coil train. This night saw 41 loads on the train, with each sled having between 5 and 8 coils. Lots and lots of steel!
Merrill, Wisconsin
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Atlantans aren't used to the snow...so they improvise. Swimming pool inner tubes, boogie boards, cardboard, and even laundry baskets all perform double duty as sleds on a snowy hill!
DeKalb County (Northlake), Georgia, USA.
10 January 2025.
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or as a decoration when conditions aren't for sledding!
My flickr friend, Cheryl, posted a similar shot.
I love the way she added skates to her image!
www.flickr.com/photos/cherylcrotty/24710656307/in/datepos...
The snow turned a slope in the neighborhood into a playground full of screams and laughter from kids and adults. These three boys tried to sled together but kept falling apart. They finally succeeded and had so much joy sledding down together again and again. Their effort also gave me many chances to get better shots of them.
A fully mature Greenlandic sled dog. These powerful animals just love to pull and run.
Once the only way for locals to get around in winter, sledding is now much more for recreation and competition.
A typical sled owner may have 10-16 dogs - sometimes even more. In summer though, its downtime where they are fed only once every two days and virtually no exercise.
These are not pets in any sense and we were strongly advised not to go near them. They are kept together in pairs - and the pairing is strategic - dogs are matched according to their power, temperament and endurance to make up the best combination for sledding,
Winning the annual races is a massive accolade and treasured by the winner.
For a variety of reasons I just haven't been able to be as active in the pool lately as I would like to be :( I really miss seeing and commenting on everyone's work!
I really love these trees (CG230 Happy Holiday Trees) and wanted to use them in a moonlit scene. Using masks for both the moon and the snowy ground I sponged broken china and peeled paint distress inks on a piece of white cs. The sentiment from LP178 Traditional Messages was embossed in the moon. The trees were stamped and accented with icicle stickles. I was very pleased with the result of this simple design (and so will my wallet when it comes time to mail it out!)
Other materials used:
Stampin' Up cs, snowflake and sledding stamps
Michael's rhinestones
TFL!
This shot was made during the sled dog race in Dobel / Black Forest. Usually it is on snow but unfortunately there wasn't snow :( At least some people did a dry race.
I talked to the event organizer and, funny, we noticed that I already did some photos of him and his pack earlier this Year in a race in Wallgau :)
Nice event, nice people, wonderful day :)
Best Music from Finland, over the hills...
I grabbed a telephoto shot of one of the local hills this evening while the snow was still falling, and decided to dress it up with a vintage polaroid look.
For Our Daily Challenge: Dress It Up
Samoyeds are descended from the Nenets herding laika, a spitz-type dog from Siberia used for sledding, herding, guarding, and keeping their owners warm.
The Samoyed combines strength, agility, dignity and grace in a general spitz outline. Slightly longer than it is tall, it is nonetheless compact. It has a strong, muscular body that is able to combine power, speed, agility and endurance. It has a quick, agile stride with good reach and drive. Its double coat is heavy and weather resistant. The undercoat is soft and thick, whereas the outer coat is straight and harsh, standing straight out from the body, and glistening with a silver sheen. Its expression is animated, with the characteristic "Samoyed smile" created by the upturned corners of its mouth.
Samoyeds may not be as fast as the fastest Alaskan huskies teams but they can be competitive!
This sport takes back ancestral traditions which allowed the Inuits to survive in the big Arctic deserts and represent the link with the nature.
Fast, exciting, well trained sled dog teams are the result of careful behind the scenes planning and hard work. Successful mushers are knowledgeable in such diverse areas as kennel management, canine behavior, nutrition, veterinary care, psychology, physical conditioning, housing and transportation. Wise mushers soon learn that success or failure in any of these areas affects performance dramatically. Considering this fact it is obvious that the welfare of the dogs is of paramount importance.
Team and driver develop a close, trusting relationship because of the amount of time they spend together. To betray that trust by not meeting all of the dog’s needs runs counter to the goal of having a happy, healthy, highly motivated team.
What you see at a race is the result of long hours of work and planning to ensure that the team is prepared to test its abilities against the trail and the competition.
As a kid we had the local sledding hill officially known as Juniper Hill. Since nobody knew what a juniper was we chose to call it Jupiter Hill because a space sounding name was infinitely cooler than a silly tree name. Sometimes our fathers would give us a ride to the hill, other times we would trek the mile and a half across town, sleds in tow. A xmas gift circa 1976, my brother and I received Flexible Flyer sleds. Those poor sleds took a major pounding and were rebuilt many times in their hard lives. This is my remembery of those good times. Handmade wire and wood sleds and the saucers that were common at the time. Thanks to Peter McKercher for the idea and the impetus to get the big box of baking soda.
In Riverside Park South, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. (The elevated structure on the left is the West Side Highway.)
This sport takes back ancestral traditions which allowed the Inuits to survive in the big Arctic deserts and represent the link with the nature.
Fast, exciting, well trained sled dog teams are the result of careful behind the scenes planning and hard work. Successful mushers are knowledgeable in such diverse areas as kennel management, canine behavior, nutrition, veterinary care, psychology, physical conditioning, housing and transportation. Wise mushers soon learn that success or failure in any of these areas affects performance dramatically. Considering this fact it is obvious that the welfare of the dogs is of paramount importance.
Team and driver develop a close, trusting relationship because of the amount of time they spend together. To betray that trust by not meeting all of the dog’s needs runs counter to the goal of having a happy, healthy, highly motivated team.
What you see at a race is the result of long hours of work and planning to ensure that the team is prepared to test its abilities against the trail and the competition.
Dog Sleds at the Aurora Village
The most fun you can have at -41c!
This was my first night at the aurora village with Holly and Sinead, and we had a blast ! The aurora activity was only classed as 'moderate' but it felt like it should have been rated higher, it was in the sky for most of the night! Also, I spent 5 hours here last night (2 alone after the girls went back to the room to sleep). Yellowknife is a photographers dream!
This is just 1 shot from the 1022 I took last night, and is of an overturned dog sled in front of the dog kennels. The aurora was dancing over them most of the night, and I have several timelapses ill try work on over the next week or so!
3 more nights of this, and tonight is supposed to be classed as 'active' so looking forward to what it brings!
Seeking to turn winter- what the enemy forces of Castil swore would be their greatest advantage- into success, the cunning and brilliant engineers of Iksandria and Falaise created fantastic new war machines. Instead of snowy stalemate, the frozen plains of eastern Yurope would be a playground for these new ski vehicles.
Recent DNA studies show that dogs were first domesticated in Siberia ~23,000 years ago. The Greenland dog is an ancient breed of dogs that first appeared in Greenland over 4000 years ago, arriving with Paleo-Eskimo people from Russia. Genetic studies show that the Greenland dog has been kept isolated from other breeds for ~1000 years, since the arrival of the Thule people, ancestors of the modern Inuit, in Greenland from northern Canada. The closest living wolf ancestor of the Greenland dog is the grey wolf.
23/09/2023 www.allenfotowild.com
Playing with actual toys, light, shadow, and snow this morning working on storytelling, too. This is much more fun than reality because the repairman came today with bad news, so I will be shopping for a new refrigerator and awaiting a call regarding a vehicle which is in the shop for mystery noises. It should be clear by now that I am easily amused which I am grateful for because this project would be much harder. Wishing those with frigidly cold temperatures some warmth today. My snow is melting away and may actually be gone soon.