A week before christmas this is the view I got from my house, it's a perfect winther day with
-15 degrees celsius and sunshine. I can not get better! Also this is the landscaper that I get inspired by. The pictures where taken about 2pm so the sun is all but gone.
Now, whats it like where you live?
My house:
Same here in Maritime Canada, we got snow then freezing rain then rain then temperatures below freezing. Everything outdoors is rock hard today, glad I cleared our driveway and walkway last night before it froze.
Here is a shot looking out our backyard during the snow Sunday afternoon:
There was already a fair amount of snow on the ground from the past two weeks.
I hate winter!
Bob Boudreau
CANADA
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I haven't figured out the whole posting pictures thing yet - but here in the Twin Cities in Minnesota we have about 6 inches of snow - but some great open ice on Lake Minnetonka! I might get the ice boat (sail boat on skates) out over Christmas week.
Wayzata Modeler wrote: I haven't figured out the whole posting pictures thing yet - but here in the Twin Cities in Minnesota we have about 6 inches of snow - but some great open ice on Lake Minnetonka! I might get the ice boat (sail boat on skates) out over Christmas week.
Apparently some open water now too - I see a few days ago some yahoo had their pickup go thru the ice while ice fishing on a local lake !!
ranchero wrote:you means theres an outside world?
We call it the "prototype" world. It's that idealized place that Plato wrote about, and we had to study in college. It is the basis for all model railroads, regardless of era, even though the prototype world is limited to one era (The Present.)
The Prototype World is that place you drive through to get to the LHS. The UPS truck drives through it to bring things you order online, as well. While the Prototype World does not seem particularly necessary to most of us, in reality, without it we would have a hard time modelling. For one thing, the power we use to run our trains is actually generated in the Prototype World.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
No snow here in Vegas.
One word.
WET!
ChrisKLAS wrote: No snow here in Vegas.
Just the usual dessicated desert, covered with too many subdivision houses, too close together (and, in places, too many casinos, too close together!)
There is snow on Mount Charleston, though.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Looks uncrowded here. Not bad for California. 2 hours from Los Angeles and we have no traffic, no crowds, no noise. Affordable housing and no ice storms or snow. Must be the best kept secret in Ca. Happy Holidays,
glenn
We had a bad snow storm yesterday, 16 to 20 inches of the stuff. This is how it was this morning.
A view of the rear patio
What you see is a 4x4 off road vehicule and the trailer to tow it.
This is what we got when we opened the door to the driveway.
Some shoveling will be required to move the cars out.
Jack W.
White.
We just got 10-12 inches here in Michigan. It is the most we have had in a long time.
Here's what the genereal landscape looks like in our area along with some Lewis and Clark commemorative sculptures decorated unofficially by my wife.
Here's my yard with the neighbor kids playing in what little snow we have had so far. We have generally mild winters here in the valley. The temps are 32F nights and around 40F days.
No pics,
But in Southern Wisconsin we have a little bit of open water, 12 to 18" of the white stuff, with another 2" on the bottom of that and another 3" layer somewhere in the middle. No snowblower and my shovel is getting worn out, on the plus side I have lost 5 lbs due to shovelling it's not all bad.
Not as much as some, but enough that it makes you want to not get out of bed!
Not much railfanning happening either!
Right now it's 49 degrees and sunny in western Arizona...should be 60 degrees today.....
Bob Berger, C.O.O. N-ovation & Northwestern R.R. My patio layout....SEE IT HERE
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This was two weeks ago, the early morning after a storm that precluded our Saturday evening performance of "Messiah."
It is my ocean-side yard overlooking the Strait of Georgia between Vancouver Island and the Mainland. Vancouver is in the far distance, slightly left, about 70 miles.
Two days later, at approximately the same time, early morning, I imaged a different day.
In the Los Angeles area this is what the view out my door looks like. Yes there are mountains in Southern California and yes they do get snow, just not these ones. It's going to be in the low 60's today and nice. You really can't beat SoCal's winters but the summers are starting to just get too darn hot for me. Not only the summers but we were having almost 100 degree temps in October and November. Not fun. Crazy as this sounds to most of you guys but I miss the winter snow on the ground like I had while going to school in Montana. Christmas is so much better when it feels like winter. Then again its kind of great when every year I go play golf on Christmas and Thanksgiving.
--Zak Gardner
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zgardner18 wrote:Crazy as this sounds to most of you guys but I miss the winter snow on the ground like I had while going to school in Montana. Christmas is so much better when it feels like winter.
I hear that! I grew up in Kentucky, and while of course every Christmas wasn't white, there were some that were, and I miss that greatly out here in the desert!
How about us guys in the midwest SWAP you guys out west our white stuff and grey clouds, for the sun and the sand? LOL!
TheK4Kid
TheK4Kid wrote:How about us guys in the midwest SWAP you guys out west our white stuff and grey clouds, for the sun and the sand? LOL!TheK4Kid
I'll send some sunshine but you can keep the white stuff...I don't miss it one bit (I'm originally from New York City)
Lillen,
The pictures were beautiful.
It's cold and windy here, but sadly no snow. It rained Saturday night through Sunday afternoon.
just cold and windy no white stuff
if we had that the whole city comes to a standstill
Gav
Reality...an interesting concept with no successful applications, that should always be accompanied by a "Do not try this at home" warning.
Hundreds of years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...But the world may be different because I did something so bafflingly crazy that my ruins become a tourist attraction.
"Oooh...ahhhh...that's how this all starts...but then there's running...and screaming..."
Reese
Modeling NS One Locomotive At a Time
This is a really fun thread ! I wish we had a big snowfall here in southeast Ohio. Hardly ever see any really big snow. Lillen , it sure is beautiful in Sweden. I've never been to Sweden, but your photos remind me of central West Virginia.
Nice pics, everyone!
Cascade Green Forever ! GET RICH QUICK !! Count your Blessings.
70F and dry here. We are in a drought.
But we DO have passenger rail service.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow