Day 63 - That Much Snow

Since New Brunswick is about to enter into a warm, wet spell of weather (five straight days over 0 degrees with rain), I thought it was time to try to capture in a photograph just how much snow we've got on the ground. You know, before some of it melts away.

So, on a walk with Marlee, I watched for interesting images that might give a true sense of the snow. I took shots of snow on top of things, beneath things, around things, but nothing seemed to capture the amount of snow so well as this picture of a stop sign just barely keeping its head above the wave of white stuff.

I admit, of course, that some of this snow pile was created by the plows clearing the street (we don't actually have seven feet of snow on the ground naturally) but it is an eerie sight. And its precisely what you face all over the city: unbelievably high banks of snow, narrow passages for cars or people between them, and select bits (like hydrants) shovelled out completely to create odd little alcoves in the snow banks.

By the end of this weekend, however, I expect at least some of the white stuff to have melted away with the milder temperatures and the rain.