Calgary Chinook, afternoon stroll

[existentialcrisis]

Woke up a little earlier than usual the other day (3pm!) and noticed how nice it was outside with the chinook. So I decided to go for a little walk through my neighbourhood... must have been 9 degrees out because I was quite hot with my thin little jacket on!

From my back porch... see, the snow is melting!





This is what they call a park here...






Quick walk then back out to the suburbs...






People are out shoveling the melting snow before it freezes into a disaster... the unplowed residential roads are already disasterous enough.


Everything seems so wet... and the roadside snow is really getting black and gross.


A young lad is out shoveling while some daycare children watch him through the fence.




Final stop, my local pub.


... for some lovely baby yorkies!

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Fabulous Existentia! I can feel the warmth of the Chinook as I browse the shots.And finishing off at your local pub,brilliant! (Please tell me you shared that whole plate of food with someone! )
Thanks for this lovely diversion!

[bixaorellana]

Yeek ~~ that looks too much like what I just escaped!

Seriously, that is an extremely interesting picture spread, Existentia. What a dramatic change. How long to chinooks usually remain over an area? How lovely that you have an actual forest close to where you live.

And pay no attention to that wimp behind the bib & tucker in the last post. "Share", hell! I'd gobble up that whole thing after such a cold walk, maybe looking around for more afterward. I'm assuming baby yorkies are not the cute little dogs -- roast beef (or pork???) and gravy on a bun, yes? Is that cole slaw in the middle?

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I immediately thought of getting rid of extra little dogs.

I'm glad that the weather turned balmy. Are there usually some thaws in the winter?

[existentialcrisis]

I don't know how long chinooks last. I suppose it varies. This one has been going on for a long time.... temperatures are finally starting to drop but it's still not going below -10. I guess if there is a steady and strong enough wind during a chinook, it can really melt everything! I guess the word "chinook" translates to mean "snow eater".

I wouldn't say I have a "forest" nearby ... a few trees, really. Though Calgary has lots of green spaces, which is why it is so big. Comparable in size to LA or NYC but with only a million people. Lots of space.

A plate of yorkies is easy to devour single handedly! It is sliced roast beef in little yorkshire puddings (which are quite light), topped with gravy. And the stuff in the little cup is actually horseradish.

[bixaorellana]

Little yorkshire puddings?! Gravy?! Horseradish?!

Wow. We people in the US have been giving you Canadians short shrift for way too long.

[imec]

Oh! I missed this. I'd KILL for those Yorkies!!! MMMMMM!

[charlie]

I'll be home to Calgry in Sept. My grandmother's 100th birthday party. She's not some old lady by the way. A very active spry lady who just happens to be old. She makes super fine yorkies as well.

[charlie]

Oh, chinooks rarely last more then a week and are usually followed by very, very bad storms. Likely as a way to make up for the balmy.

[existentialcrisis]

This has been a mild winter, Charlie... at least, for Calgary standards. After the chinook the temperature stayed between -10 and 0 for a while... then there were a few -15 days, and now the temperatures are mild again, -8 to +4 ... but we just had a storm so maybe this is the end!

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That photo of the little dead puppies covered with gravy still warms us all.

[existentialcrisis]

lol ... well they taste better than they look