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Category: winter


Snow

A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot, and the subsequent videos and images: It was bound to happen before spring arrives, and we did have our first snowfall of the season in Vancouver yesterday. It’s also snowing again today, and this is a big deal in our city.

While the skies were grey, it was wonderful hearing the crunch that came with walking in this snow. I once again had lucky timing since, as you’ll see in the first video below, a group of ducks came flying right in my line of vision while I was recording that moment in nature. While you’ll see the ducks on your screen, they show up even more beautifully playing this on a tv screen.

Keep scrolling for more pics and videos from our snowy day. For more photos and videos of my travels, you’re welcome to follow me on Instagram ( https://www.instagram.com/exceptional_ea/ ) and on “Travels With Shelagh” on YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/@WalkingWithShelagh ) .

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Kits Beach Covered in Snow!

Putting February 2019 behind us: It was the coldest February Vancouverites have encountered in over 80 years, and among our top 10 snowiest months

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Only in Vancouver: Characters from Our Polar Bear Swim

You saw in my last post that we continued our New Year’s tradition with a running dip into the cool winter waters of Vancouver’s English Bay. Here, I thought I’d bring you some footage and photos of the wild and…

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In For A Penny …

Yes, we did it again! On New Year’s Day, we made our way down to English Bay to celebrate the Vancouver way.Call we Vancouverites and the people from numerous countries who join us what you like: silly, brave, adventurous,  foolhardy…

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Harbour Lights

As Christmas drew close this year, the skies cleared and we enjoyed some sunny, clear days. This led to a minor dusting of snow, and so I made my way up to another mountain to capture views to the west….

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Into the Mists

After capturing a number of photos from above the fog earlier this month, I made my way down to West Vancouver’s Ambleside Beach. There, you have Stanley Park directly across the waters. On this particular morning, much of the forested…

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Happy Birthday, Canada!

Oh, Canada! – July 1st is our national holiday, and we have a great deal to celebrate. Here’s a look across the land.

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All Washed Up

… but these logs just off the shores of Jericho Beach, earlier this year, were still striking. Thinly wrapped with snow, they gleamed in the afternoon sunlight. These mountain and water views are also pretty impressive. That’s Lighthouse Park dwarfed by…

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Game On

It’s rare for Vancouver area lakes to freeze over to the extent that people can skate on them. I remember being on Como Lake in 1988, and it’s been a couple of decades since Trout Lake, below, was frozen. With clear…

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Plunging into 2017

Here’s a look at English Bay on a cold, but sunny winter day. We’ve had plenty of those lately, but that wasn’t the case on New Year’s Day. Nonethless, we continued our tradition of traipsing down to English Bay to take part…

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