A nice light fluffy snow is sifting down again today. Here in Saskatchewan we don’t always get a large amount of snow, and what we get tends to be dry and fine, not the heavy saturated dumps that other parts of the country often see. I’m happy to see more snow as I bought snowshoes last year after the big January blizzard so I could get out and do photos of the drifts. So far this year I’ve only been out once on the snowshoes as we just don’t have quite enough snow cover. It’s likely OK now—we’ve had a couple of small falls and a bit of drifting since I was last out, so once it warms up a tad I’ll get out again.

In the meantime, here are a couple of shots post-blizzard last year. The first one is the concession building (for summer show season) at the stable where I keep my horse. The drifts went right up over the roof on that one corner. The other shot was taken under the overhanging roof that is on the right of the first picture. This is a full-scale carousel zebra who is looking particularly frantic about the situation he has found himself in. Mind you, he looks quite distressed all the time, poor thing. I call this one “Save me”. I had to snowshoe up to the north side of the building over a drift consderably taller than me, then bend down to shoot into the space between the bottom of the roof and the top of the drift in front of the zebra. When I stood upright on the drift I was considerably taller than the roof of the concession. That was a “biggest in the last 50 years” blizzard, so I suppose it’s too much to hope for another one like that any time soon.

If you’re a “regular” (for the whole few days I’ve been doing this) please note that I’ve switched to “not every day” mode now. I figure maybe twice a week will be about right. We’ll see.