Sundown tonite

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High winds and blowing snow

 The last few days have been windy with whiteouts. You can hear the wind coming and the house shutters with it's force.  It's going to get colder again for a few days too.
   Good thing I have been working inside on the kitchen, dining room for a while.  All the tiles are done except for the grout, the drywall almost finished and most of the drywall is primed. It's finally all coming together.  Here is a recent pic of the river looking north from the bridge.

Video of the river yesterday

Another from yesterday

Snowshoeing along the river

The weather finally is mellowing around -7°C today sunny and no wind.  Finally got out on the snowshoes and walked in from the road, south along the east side of the river. A good meter of snow in the bush sinking down about 30cm under the tree cover but in the open there was a soft crust that made it a bit better.  Here is a pic of river with pillows of snow on the rocks.

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More snow pics

West of Gowganda

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Dark Sundown

Just happened to look at the stats today

Today I was looking at the stats of Gowganda Views, this gives the number of people and what country they hail from, as of today more than 90,000 views by readers that have dropped in for a look since the start of the blog in 2008.  Thank you for all your participation.
 This year, the cold has kept the amount of new blogs down but I have some plans when it warms up a bit and the wind finally slows down.  Today it has been very windy, snow blowing all over, even walking down for the mail with the wind was not too comfortable.  Here's a pic of the homestead today.

Tonite's sunset

Pics from today Outlook Pt

Just a couple of pics from Outlook Point

Waiting for the northern lites last week

Last Thursday and Friday were to be good nites to observe the Northern Lites,  it  fell a little short as the suns blast was not quite straight on to the earth where we are.  I was out and in Thursday waiting but no sign of the lites.  Here is a token picture taken out the back yard about 11:30pm, temperature was cold and skies partly cloudy.  After that I packed it in.  Apparently they did see some around 3:00 am.  Friday nite turned out to be cloudy.

A bit warmer today, by Saturday possible +5° C

Heading into a warming trend the next few days. Out for a couple of pics along the highway.

Cold and more snow

Another couple of dumps of snow the last couple of days, yesterday just too cold to go out and clean it up.  Today better but not by much.  The summer chairs look so cool disappearing into the snow.  I know too much cold chills the brain.

Back to Gowganda yesterday afternoon

Great trip over the holidays, Worthington (west of Sudbury), Lindsay, Toronto, Peterboro, east of Parry Sound, and Huntsville. Lots of good food and catching up with everyone. Drove back from Huntsville yesterday the roads were dry and in good shape all the way home. 
 Not quite the same story this morning waking up to this....

Spent a few hours cleaning this up and it has snowed on and off the rest of the day too.  It's great to be back.

Last post for this year

 Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Thanks for watching Gowganda Views 

Winter solstice approches

Winter officially begins on Dec. 21, marking the slow return of the sun making the days become longer for those north of the equator. The day itself is the darkest and shortest day of the year, when the sun reaches its southernmost point in the sky.

Cold weather is not moving out yet

Very cold the last few days with the temps in the morning around -30° C one morning.  Days have had terrible wind chill too.  Snowmobiles are now on the lake.  Ice fishermen have said there is over 6" of ice.  Here is a pic of the old well in the back yard as the sun is setting.

Finally a bit of sun

After the ice storm and melt a bit of sunshine today

Back to the river

Down at the rapids where I took some pics earlier (Nov. 9), now with the snow a new view.  There is 10 inches on the ground in the bush right now.  Most of that will have disappeared with the rain last night.

Snow starting to add up

 After the last week or so temperatures have fallen and the lake is frozen over.  Snow is building up slowly even to getting the snowblowers out all over town, snowplows keep the roads clear and sanded.  Winter has set in.  Here are a couple of pics from last week.