The Breakroom > The Water Cooler
Snowing
Darren:
Thought I might try to chear this thread up a bit ... :)
Here are some pictures I took earlier around my place
This is a local dam for a hydro company near to me, one of a few around here and all spectacular in their own right. We live about one photo frame to the right of this picture.
A little closer
And zoomed in some more. It stands about 150ft high and feeds another dam below where the electricity station lives. The lower lake and dam is quite pretty and I thouroughly recomend a cafe that overlooks the lower lake where you can get a darn good cheap English breakfast and a cupper :ddb: :ddb: :ddb: Tan-y-Grisu if anyone is around this way :thumbup:
One of the Steam Railway stations is also in the same location and runs all year. Well worth a visit.
And to the right of the dam is our little town (center of picture) in the mountains
You can't see our place, but it's below the ziz zag path up the slate waste mound. This is where the workers from the town used to walk to work in the slate quarry for the last 200yrs. It's still producing what is regarded as the finest slate ever mined in the world. And indeed was shipped all over the world.
Here is a view of our place. We are well below road level and you may notice that the garage I built last summer can't be seen
Behind our house it the old market hall, where Lloyd George gave his first ever public speech. Quite a pretty building. And in front of us is an old church, again quite a nice view from the front of our property.
I hope you enjoyed the pictures :)
GrahamC:
I did, thanks for the photo tour Darren.
cheers, Graham in Ottawa Canada
rleete:
I'd like to apologise to AdeV, as my above post came across as a bit snarky. I assure you that it was not my intent. I do think that everyone is sue happy these days, and more than a little overboard when it comes to "protecting" us.
So, back to the topic. I went outside at break today, and measured the snow. Sitting on a picnic table, where I'm sure wind has removed some of what has fallen, I measured 14.5" in the middle. My house, less than a 15 minute drive north of here, has had quite a bit less; in the neighborhood of 8". My friend, who lives in another part of town, again less than 15 minutes drive away, has had over 2 feet in the past few days. All of this is a result of living SE of Lake Ontario. It's also not anywhere nearly as scenic as Darren's pics.
Temps have hovered right around the 20 degree mark for the past 10 days or so, dipping into the teens at night. We're supposed to hit a slightly colder patch in the next couple of days, with highs hitting the single digits and lows going in the negative direction. I'll take more snow over the excessive cold anytime.
Bernd:
Well Roger, were I am I've only had to plow a couple of drifts were the wind had piled some snow. I figure if the wife can make out our 1/10 mile long driveway I really don't need to plow, but I needed some freah air. I'm starting to get Cabin Fever. Which by the way the wife says we can't go to. :hammer:
Think perhaps I'll take a few pics too and post them later tonight.
Bernd
rleete:
6 hour drive for me, so I don't suppose I'll make it either. You get any further on the coke bottle engine? I had 10 days off at the end of the year, and got very little accomplished in the shop. Just straighening up took a couple of days, and it really doesn't look much better than where you visited!
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version