Snow on utility pole

Community greenhouse construction

Leftovers

An entire winter's worth of parking lot plowings, minus 95% of the snow. Ewww.

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.

Public pier view

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.

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.

Slush

Yes, roadways are a bit of a mess around here right now.

Snow-clearing

All through the night, all through the day and on through another dusk. As long as the snow keeps falling, the snow-clearing crew keeps working. This is the main highway through New Denver. Not much traffic at dusk on a snowy weekday afternoon.

Keep bears wild

Keep bears wild. Use this bear-proof garbage bin.

The creek-side trail in the village also provides doggy-do bags.

Helipad

The emergency helipad next to the health care facility.

Oxygen

Behind the community gym, adjacent to the health care facility.

Hospital with a view

The staff patio at the health care facility (lab, medical clinic, nursing home, emergency department, allied health professions). It's a tough view to beat.

Wind sock

Standing sentinel above the health care facility's emergency helipad.

Chains

Marks left by chains on the tires of the loader that helps clear piles of snow from village streets. After large snowfalls the plows can run out of places to push the snow, so empty lots, little-used cul de sacs and closed-off streets become excess snow repositories.

Snow removal

It wasn't a huge dump of snow, just the first proper one of the year. The snow removal equipment has been out in full force mopping things up today.

No. 2 Pumphouse

The pumphouse that is part of the Village of New Denver water system gets a picturesque treatment, situated as it is in a small park on the waterfront.

Bridge over Silverton Creek

The main highway bridge in the community of Silverton, spanning Silverton Creek.

Fire hydrant

Linda at Occasional Scotland asked for a fire hydrant photo. It took me a while yesterday to find a hydrant -- most were still buried. But this one had been properly dug out, probably by the village's bobcat loader, before the most recent snowfall and is therefore still partly visible.

Many towns affix long vertical metal poles to their hydrants, with small yellow octagons at the top, to aid in locating hydrants in the snow. We have few enough hydrants here that I guess the three or four village employees who do the snow-clearing just know where they are.