Friday, December 12, 2025

Snowblowers and Shadows

 We woke to a few more inches of the white stuff, and the big snowblower was here before 9 this morning.  We and several others of the street pay for this snowblowing service.  This tractor was blowing the snow out 30 feet across our front lawn!  We also pay extra to have our sidewalk shovelled.  Winter is really here.

Here it comes - photo shot through a screened window.

I don't know what we'd do without a service like this, although there are several ambitious men on the street (all over 80 I think), who blow out their own driveways.

Half an hour later and I'm looking out the back window at a landscape of bright sunshine!

Our snowstick is slightly buried now.

A snow-covered bright red chair.

The winter shadows are back.  There'd be more except for the four big White Ash trees removed last fall.

Blue sky, dark clouds and shadows!


8 comments:

  1. We haven't as much snow here but it is bitterly cold today. It truly is winter!!

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  2. That snow blower on a tractor is definitely the way to go for a lot of heavy blowing. Love the shadows, and your last photo, shades of blue and grey. No, not the " 50 shades". do try and keep warm and stay off that road/street/ highway.

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  3. Love the picture of the chair with the snow on it.

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  4. That is a good service, worth paying for. Here, it's up to us, and since he bought this diesel tractor it has not been easy, as it is almost impossible to start a diesel in cold weather. U less you have something called glow plugs, and he doesnt seem to know if he does or not! Very frustrating. Last winter he burned up all the wiring, the alternator and the battery trying to start it. Very expensive mistake. Can you tell i hate this tractor?

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  5. Yes, your winter is here!
    Lovely to see your photographs and I especially like the snow-covered red chair.

    All the best Jan

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  6. Right now I prefer your snow to our rain.

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  7. I haven't taken our blower guy yet this year. He tends to come in the middle of the night. More is predicted tomorrow, but not enough for the contractor to come. We can push light falls ourselves.

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  8. Gorgeous photos, yes the red chair. Here in western Washington it has been 62 degrees during the day, and RAIN RAIN RAIN. Farmers with dairy/beef herds are having the cattle trucked to other dry locations or they would drown, first time this has happened. It's too warm here. State resources are helping, federal government not helping. Farmers are losing hundreds of thousands of dollars and land. Stay the course Canada, don't give in to USA "stupid". Wow, I love your photos, FG ... calms me down. Thank you.

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