TORONTO'S WONDERLAND
Old Man Winter visited Toronto again last night, December 15 and it dumped about 20 centimeters of the white stuff everywhere. In the morning, the snowfall stopped. Yesterday evening and this morning, I shoveled snow especially in the driveway part that joins the street. Dixon Road where we live becomes Airport Road as it crosses the boundary to Missisauga.Meaning all cars, trucks, bikes, vans and other modes of transport pass by Dixon to and from Pearson International Airport. It could be as busy as hell sometimes. So, it is the priority for the City to clear Dixon road after a heavy snowfall. First they salt the streets ( and they are not using the average table salt ) to melt the snow then the big snowplows would come to clear the snow dumping it into the sidewalks.One is the sidewalk in front of my frontyard, sealing my driveway with a small barricade of snow with salt. If you do not shovel at once this snow-with-salt mixture, it freezes into a solid, rock hard wall which you can't remove anymore even with a pick axe.. Your driveway will be sealed permanently until warm weather arrives. Your visitors will be unhappy because they have to park their cars in the side streets close to your house. Meaning they will walk on slippery sidewalks to reach your door.
Cleaning up my driveway took me 45 mins to 1 hour.Being a Senior, I have to watch my back and not to slide otherwise, I might continue my retirement on a wheel chair. Thats the bad thing about winter here.Vancouver is the only Canadian province with milder winters because of its proximity to the Pacific Ocean..
Now the good news..Snow on the shrubs and trees surrounding the house gave me some pretty subjects to shoot and to post in the Internet..So after my work, and before the winds would blow away the snow from the branches and shrubs, I went clicking away some photos with a digital camera. Downloading the photos on the Internet is just a child's play once you selected the good shots from the bad--#
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