Monday, December 30, 2013

Hot and Cold...and a Happy Medium

How Canadians, faced with power outages due to cold, spend their time keeping warm...

How Argentinians, faced with power outages to extreme heat, spend their time keeping cool

Of course, Argentinians won't let a protest fire lit in mid street to complain about days and days without electricity go to waste. Just tale out the grill and throw on a few sausages - and it turns into a neighbourhood BBQ

Whilst Torontonians deal with a different kind of street closures, and try to figure out which one of the snowy heaps to dig out..

Meanwhile, on Vancouver Island, eternal spring seems to be the order of the second last day of 2013. Cherry blossoms in the yard...

Soft pink blossoms....not a snowflake in sight

My house is surrounded by Rhododendrons, all preparing for a burst of blooms in a couple of months time...