Photo Post Of The Weekend

In which we remember Latvia

Written by Forest Pines; published at 6:59 am on January 16th, 2010.
Filed under: Photobloggery, The Family.

All that snowy weather we’ve been having – almost all gone now, apart from the enormous pile of snow cleared from the office car park – reminded me of the holiday we took a couple of years back, to RÄ«ga, Latvia. “Make sure you wrap up warmly,” said The Mother. “Get proper thermals. Lots and lots of layers.” “You’ll need to take sunglasses, too,” said Dad, “or you’ll get snow-blindness.”

All of which we ignored, fortunately, because we’d have looked bloody silly. RÄ«ga in February was not too dissimilar from Britain in February, being grey, damp, and largely snow-free; it shouldn’t really have been surprising, because it’s on about the same latitude as Dundee. We took plenty of photos; but for some reason they never appeared on here.*

* Unlike the above anecdote about the snow-blindness, etc, which definitely has.

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Obligatory Snow Post Of The Week

In which we resist the temptation to make a snowman

Written by Forest Pines; published at 9:09 am on February 3rd, 2009.
Filed under: Photobloggery.

We didn’t think that this part of the country got much snowfall. Indeed, compared to elsewhere, it didn’t; and it was late, when it started. But by yesterday lunchtime it was coming down thickly, although not so thickly that I was dissuaded from wrapping up in hat and gloves and going down the street with the camera, hastily pulling it out from under my coat to take a shot and shoving it back away before too much snow melted on it. This morning, still, there was the telltale glow from behind the curtains.

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