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Cee’s
Black and White Challenge.
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hot or cold
Snow in June surprised even the Canadians.
In 2007, this sight surprised me.
Dubai, in October, was still hotter
than Geelong in mid-summer.
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Athabasca Glacier
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chill
All my chill images should have
provided us with a chilling experience…
…unfortunately, the opposite was true.
Although it was snowing on
Canada’s Athabasca Glacier in Alberta,
moving around kept us warm.
Even our visit to
Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier
was undertaken in bright sunshine.
I must confess wearing more than
a cotton shirt on the
glacier visits though.
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snow
atmospheric water vapour frozen into ice crystals and falling
in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer.
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My first experience…
…with a…
…freshly fallen…
…silent shroud…
…of snow.
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Although it did not…
…feel cold from the comfort of our coach,
it was snowing outside as we approached
Alberta’s, Columbia Icefields.
Nor did it feel cold while walking
on the Athabasca Glacier.
However, 63 miles inside the Arctic Circle
at Wiseman, Alaska, the sun was shining and
shirt sleeves were almost
the dress code of the day
Certainly the exact opposite of what we/I
expected weather conditions
that far north to be.
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Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Hot-Cold
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An abundance of ice and snow at the…
Margerie Glacier
in Glacier Bay (Alaska)…
…and the
Columbia Ice Fields,
(Athabasca Glacier) in Canada.
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Since 2013 we have travelled sorts of roads.
Dirt tracks upon which a pride of lions rested.
Then a road which was not much more
than wheel tracks across Sua Pan,
one of the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans in Botswana.
The Sua Pan (or Sowa Pan) is a large natural topographic depression
within the Makgadikgadi region of Botswana.
The Makgadikgadi Pans were once a lake which
was larger in area than Switzerland.
It dried up several thousand years ago
(Source: Wikipedia)
Could we call this a water road, in Venice?
An extraordinary trip across to France and return via Eurostar.
Extraordinary because I was ‘talking’ to MGW’s cousin
via Facebook while under the Channel.
Last year another Railroad ride on
The Rocky Mountaineer.
Two days of travel through glorious scenery
with first class comfort and service
back to Vancouver.
I’m probably stretching it a bit to call
the Peak2Peak gondola ride at Whistler a road.
However, it was the only way we could
access the mountain top.
Finally, there had to be a road of some sort
leading up onto the Athabasca Glacier
when we visited the Columbia Ice-field.
I doubt if we will ever get to ride in
one of these machines again.
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Waaay back in the 1960s
Simon & Garfunkel penned and/or
at least sang these lyrics:
… Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow
I am a rock
I am an island…
When I read this week’s theme I could only think
of being covered by a blanket of snow this week.
Temperatures forecasts for the week were
33, 37, 27, 33, 29 and plunging to 22 on Saturday.
We certainly had our 33 today (Monday)
and may get some relief on Wednesday.
But roll on Saturday.
At least I can gaze upon these images of
our visit to the Athabasca Glacier/Columbia Icefield
last June and remember.
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Our visit to the
Columbia Ice Fields…
was made so special…
by the sight and memory of freshly falling,
silent shrouds of snow.
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Fandango’s One Word Challenge: Special
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