It is not over until it is over...

The header relates to the picture above. We had kind of an early spring in March, then the weather turned cold again in the beginning of April. After some days of promising weather it started to snow again the day before yesterday and yesterday it was still snowing when I came home from work as you can see in the picture above. The winter is not over yet it seems.

Winter update

Hello everybody from this frozen over hell called Finland. Blogger Val asked me regarding my last put if it has got any better now, the answer is no.

Its is worse...

Since Sunday we have got som 10 inches of snow combined with a hard northern wind yesterday and today that made the snow pile up, up to my eyebrows in places as you can see from the picture of our backyard this evening:

My car trailer parked alongside our woodshed is somewere inside the pile of snow below:

The temperature today is only a moderate -6 C but tomorrow it will drop down to -15 C again.
Aaargghhh!

Still hibernating...

Nothing much else to do. The temperature plunges down below -20 C every night and hardly rises above -12 C in the middle of the day. I generally like a good old winter but this is too extreme even for my taste. The snow is soon waist deep.
To comfort myself in the meantime I upgraded from D70 to a second hand D300.
Took some test pictures from the front- and back porch last Sunday (cold) morning. You really don't want to walk around with the camera in this weather. Your fingers will be frozen stiff, the lense will stick and the battery will die in some few minutes... :(

I'm not dreaming of a Christmas this white...

The picture is from a webcam overlooking a traffic circle here. The snow is pouring down at 11:35 am. And more is to come the next days.
Nuff said...
Hans