Snowy stuff

I know, I know, more shots of snow-covered bikes, snow-covered trees, snow -covered blah blah blah*. What can I say – I haven’t yet got sick yet of looking out the window, or tramping through the snow. It’s great at night, especially when it’s cloudy so the moonlight and city lights are reflected by the snow, making it quite bright. Unfortunately though that means there’s no northern lights to be seen.

* Just an aside, the 2nd biggest laugh I got recently was from the 3rd series of Arrested Development, where in a meeting Michael announces they don't "have time to talk nonsense to blah blah blah - who is actually their attorney Bob Loblaw. Maybe you had to be there. The biggest laugh though came from Tobias' previous career as a doubly qualified Analist - Therapist. There is a very unfortunate way to combine those two titles. "It's not the pronounciation that scares me..."

A new winner in the "frosty early-morning reception" category

A touch of pink sunset

Now this is taking that "frosty early-morning reception" thing too far

Older style Swedish architecture

Snow mounds are all over the town, from the shovelling that occurs overnight every night. The snow is then gradually carted to a big snow dump, that will maintain snow throughout the summer.

The northern port. Pretty much all frozen over now, the tracks are from snowmobiles. They will open a road on the ice that can be used to drive tens of kms throughout the archipelago, either with snomobile or car. It is hard to ice skate because of the snowfall, though there are plans to open a 10k track around the city from the north to south harbour when the ice is thick enough. There are public skating rinks which are scraped every day for playing hockey on. I haven't skated yet, but just borrowed some skates so will get out later this week. I'm also keen to snowscooter - some of the racing models can apparently reach 220kph - awesome!

Just as I was walking around town and wondering why some of the rooves were not covered with meters of snow, I found out why... They get shoveled also.