What a beautiful sight to wake up to! Thanks for the shots Kate.

Randy

Heh, beat me to it. I was going to take the reverse angle of the second shot. :)

Cheers,
lance

Beautiful.

Stupid question: are those trees elms?

Don't know about Delisle, but we have Elm's here in Coronation across the street from me. We have 4 or 5 maples in our yard and at least type of willow that also looks something like a maple.

Even caraganas looked spectacular this morning. Not an easy achievement.

That's what it looked like here at the beginning of the ice storm of 98.

I hope it has stopped drizzling, Kate.

Stunning. I miss Saskatchewan.

Just beautiful Kate. The second one looks like my street, sort of, post some more. Allan. Toronto.

Kate, I apolgize if this is the wrong place to post this, but I got this in my e-mail tonight and I wanted to pass it on to all your regular readers. It speaks volumes, to what has happened to our country today.

Those are beautiful pictures. Looks just about the same here in Dauphin.

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A Pastor With Guts

This Pastor has guts!! Thought you might enjoy this interesting prayer
given in Kansas at the opening session of their Senate. It seems prayer still upsets some people. When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard:

"Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done.

We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.

We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.

We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.

We have killed our unborn and called it choice.

We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.

We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem

We have abused power and called it politics.

We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.

We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of _expression.

We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.

Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Amen!"

The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked out during the prayer in protest. In 6 short weeks, Central Christian Church, where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than 5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls responding negatively.

The church is now receiving international requests for copies of this prayer from India, Africa and Korea.

Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, "The
Rest of the Story," and received a larger response to this program than
any other he has ever aired. With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called "one nation under God" If possible, please pass this prayer on to your friends. "If you don't stand for something, you will fall for everything."

Now that is COLD. Another good reason to be living in the deep south.

Yup, the beauty of this province is stunning!

As we say in Quebec, "mon pays, c'est l'hiver".

(My country is winter).

Beautiful shots, Kate.

Quintessential Canadiana.

All the Best from the foothills.

Stay forever self-contained.

Kate, That is a beautiful shot. Mighty cold though, hope that this this the worst it will get for you! We had plus 8 and sun shine in the Okanagan Valley. What a wonderful country we live in!!!!!

Actually, that's not freezing drizzle, and it's not cold. It's hoarfrost, collecting on the trees, fences, etc. from a heavy fog that we've had for the past two days. Temperature is around freezing point, which is unseasonably warm.

Also, because it's not obvious - these are full colour shots. Hoarfrost has the effect of turning the world monocromatic....

Hoarfrost?

Gee, I didn't know the Librano$ were running a candidate named "Frost".

... nevermind....

Nice photos Kate!

Almost makes me homesick... almost. Thing I recall about scenes like that is the silence and then crisp noise as the sun starts to melt off the frost.

Funny, I was just reading a good article on Hatians who get deported for committing crimes in Canada. Turns out one of the things deported Hatians seem to miss most about Canada is the weather:

"The deportees can be found all over in Haiti, in the shadows. Down a filthy alleyway in Port-au-Prince, I found twenty-eight-year-old Georges Pincherl. Georges had immigrated to Canada with his mother when he was four and was raised and educated in Montreal. As a teenager, however, he got involved with one of the city's Haitian youth gangs and into petty thievery and drug dealing. Now, in the fetid apartment he shares with a half-dozen other jobless men, Georges reminisces about Canada. "I miss the weather," he says. "The snow too. I miss my friends, my family, my uncles, my brothers, and my mom. I miss roast beef. I miss the Burger King."

http://www.nchr.org/rmp/deported_dumped.htm

Kate..Great pics,,,, I was born and raised in Sask, (lintlaw/ Kelvington district)In Town and on the farm..Your stories and pics have touched my heart. The days of hot weather, Cold and blinding snow, shidoos, church picnics, gophers, bugs, grasshoppers... etc etc.. even barley and alphafa chaff down my back bring back good memories.
Thanks very much.

CES...always a Sask Boy

82 degrees (28 C) with grass fires here in Texas. Damn you!

Wow. I miss winter. It's scenes like this that make me wanna say screw the Liberals and come back home.

Ummm... just a quiet suggestion, Kate... it might be interesting to try a 1A filter on the very bluest days?
Excess UV is overwhelming what the camera should record as white.
Your photos are lovely, for all that!
An A1 filter is also helpful if used constantly, as it will keep fingerprints (or worse) from the camera's lens.

Absolutely gorgeous. We have that happening in our part of southern Ontario and, for some reason, it strikes me as awe-inspiring.

een