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Monday, February 21, 2011

Service Station


Whether you need gasoline, antifreeze, new tires, a new timing belt, your headlights pointed or your brake discs replaced, our town's service station will look after you. They also have host one of two remaining payphones (beside tires). Payphones are quickly going extinct across Canada with the advent of cell phones.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Foul weather blowing in


Weather comes from the west here. Which means we see storms coming "from the Valhallas," meaning from the Valhalla mountain range on the west side of the lake. When the Valhallas start to disappear in clouds of precipitation you have just a few minutes to take cover.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Ghost town?


Boarded up, papered over, wrapped up ... It all looks fairly dismal, but good things are coming. Economic activity is highly seasonal here. Winter is the best time to renovate, build, move, re-stock, re-organize, re-launch. On the left is the craft store that began construction in November.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Public Pier


Unused through the winter, the public pier was covered in deep snow. Now milder temperatures and the lake's perpetual heat-sink effect are causing the snow to melt in patches.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Snow heap


Tall dirty heap of snow behind the community gymnasium / fitness centre. 

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Pet icicle


We get quite fond of certain icicles. This one at our favourite café is our current pet. It's well over a metre long and has grown a little every time we check on it.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Ski Hill Perspective


Putting perspective not on the size of the hill, or the view of the base area, but on the size of the operation. On a beautiful day in February with fabulous snow conditions and finger-and-toe-friendly temperatures, you can count nine cars in the parking lot, and the only four skiers you can see in this photo are the four I brought with me.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Ski Hill View


Looking down on Summit Lake, which marks the northern end of the Slocan Valley, from part way down the southernmost easy ski run.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Digging out


... with a two-stage snowblower, the best option around here.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Neck deep


This poor pear tree is up to its neck in snow. And still more falls.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Houselet


This tiny ramshackle house is right in the middle of the "core commercial district." It's for sale. Anyone want to move here and start an intimate little year-round locavore restaurant? There's a dearth of eating-out opportunities from October to April.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Kind of pretty


I think it's kind of pretty what happens to the butt end of vehicles that drive along the highway after a heavy snowfall. Apparently you can be fined by police for not keeping your license plate clear, but honestly, you'd be stopping every five minutes to do so. No one worries about it, and we only have one police officer here.

Friday, February 4, 2011

Pull over!


The heavy snow is taking its toll on the limbs of some of the trees around town. I was driving down 5th Ave. today when I saw a tree driving towards me, sideways. I had to duck into a side street to avoid a possible sweeping.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Hardware


A display case of hardware from the early days of our town, on the wall outside the current-day hardware store.