Seasons in the Valley + Furry Gnome's Adventures

It's a unique challenge to capture the beauty of winter in pictures. On cloudy days there are no shadows, and pictures tend to turn out...

Well, I know it isn't quite spring when we wake up to 20 below temperatures, but the sun today was definitely moving toward spring, high...

The first view of the Beaver Valley seen by many visitors is the one you get driving north out of Eugenia and coming over the hill of the Ni...

Well, it's a beautiful sunny day when you look out the window, but there's a bitterly cold wind chill when you actually get outdoors...

Wednesday's storm did bring a fair bit of blowing snow, maybe 20-30 cm, even if it wasn't the 'snowmaggedon' that was foreca...

Groundhog Day, and the Big Snow Day, Feb. 2nd. The groundhogs aren't going to see their shadows today, in this enormous winter storm! ...

Two sundogs greeted us this morning when we looked out the window. It had plunged to about -26 overnight, and the air was crisp and cold, b...