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Some icy adventures

We've been away a lot this month so not too much adventuring for Abby and Keeper lately. Just got in from Vancouver late last night. Looking forward to a more normal December.

Winter has really set in here, snowing this a.m. and sub-zero temperatures.

Last weekend, Keeper and Abby made a trip to the mountains before the road closes for the winter tomorrow!!

Keeper leads Abby around Upper Kananaskis Lake where we spent a few hours trudging through the snow. The lake is only half-covered in ice right now and as such the sheet is moving and was creating a very unusual, variable pitch moaning, like a whale sound and very loud . . . . punctuated by the occasional crack and ice leaping up at the shoreline.

The dogs were a little nervous and didn't want to go down to the shoreline, nor did I want to get too close.



Abby is feeling much better on her meds and was full of energy crossing a frozen stream.



A gloomy day generally, but still a beautiful place. The road we usually take to this place closes for the winter on Saturday.



A few weeks ago, a ghostly Keeper explores a deceptively frozen ice surface.



Keeper explores the shoreline with a big sky above her. No leashes!!!



Rick C
www.goldentales.ca

Re: Some icy adventures

I love the quizzical look on Keepers? face in the background of the first picture...

...and the erie look of the black and white

The passes around here are still open which is weird this time of year. Strange weather, up as high a 75F (24C)(more normally 50F...10C) during the day, but down to 19-20F(-6C) at night

Re: Some icy adventures

Rick -
As always, beautiful pictures! Thanks for sharing your world!
Fidele & Cedar (who's jealous because he's never seen snow - or a lake with ice on it)

Re: Some icy adventures

As usual great pictures, but it sure is looks cold. How is Abby doing? From the pictures it looks like she is keeping the proverbial "stiff upper lip". Wishes for you, your family, and Golden Kids for the Holidays. Just think warm thoughts and you will thaw in the spring.

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Abby is doing great . . . Metacam has really helped her.

It was 23 below zero Celcius this morning on the way to work, or about minus nine Farenheit. Cold weekend before a Chinook arrives on Monday and the temperature rockets well above zero.

In the pictures above, it's about 8 below Celcius, or about 18 degrees Farenheit.

Abby and Keeper are pretty comfortable walking up to about 15 below Celcius or +5 farenheit for an indefinite length of time.

Below that and the clock starts ticking on what they're comfortable with.

There might not be too many grand adventures this weekend.

Cowperson

Re: Some icy adventures

It was great to see Abby and Keeper on another adventure. We are looking at icy weather coming this weekend, not so cold as in the great frozen country to our north.

Sophie is going to get some Muttluks. The cold weather bothers her much more than most goldens, and I am thinking it must be her feet. She also has a dog coat, if I can only find where I stowed it last year.

She is not anywhere near as furry as Abby and Keeper.

Keep those photographs coming! I look forward to them.

Regards,

PJ

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Wonderful shots....Can I ask what Camera you use? I am thinking of getting a Nikon D40 for a little expanded use....your pictures are awesome. Might have a lead on a job with a Mid to Small level asset bank processing company as an account manager. All golden thoughts would be appreciated !!

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Golden Thoughts going your way . . . . good luck with the job.

I'm currently using a Nikon D80 but many of the shots on the www.goldentales.ca site were taken with a Panasonic DMC FZ20 . . . the newest version of that camera is the FZ50.

Yesterday in the cold, we find Keeper . . .



Rick C
www.goldentales.ca