Ray tells me:
Here's a look at the fresh snow here this morning earlier.... West Vancouver is to your left, and North Vancouver is to the right. This building is sitting almost on the borderline between them. The cleared right-of-way up the side of that nearest hill on the right is the cable-car system for the Grouse Mountain Skyride & ski area. The residential areas on the mountainsides to the left are in "British Properties" so named because the Guinness family (of grog fame) donated the money for our Lions Gate Bridge, and were given in return a tract of land on the hillside for future development. It's now reportedly the richest suburb in Canada. Hard to tell, looking at it from here. But up there, if you have to ask "How Much?", you can't afford it.
Cheers, Ray ("oldest living blogger") (USA today mention.)
Aren't digital cameras and the Internet wonderful? A picture you took may be available world-wide literally within a couple of minutes after you took it.
Ray also sent me this. Quote:
"Q: Any idea how many of the 109.2 million blogs you track get no hits in the course of a year?
A: Just over 99 percent. The vast majority of blogs exist in a state of total or near-total obscurity."
6 comments:
Thank You, Kind Sir it looks
good, and I'm glad you decided to share it with your many readers.
You're absolutely right, Eolake, about the Internet and digital cameras. It's just marvelous. It puts the fun into sharing pictures again.
Ray.
I'm a little envious now. The temp here starts at about 40F in the morning, and by lunchtime it's back in the upper 60's. We've only had five days of rain since May. Heck I even dined al fresco yesterday lunch, and was plenty warm enough.
I would like to see a bit more weather once in a while.
"Question Everything".....
Where are you living, Alex ?
I'm going to take a wild guess and say Orange County, or the San Fernando Valley, or Los Angeles, or
maybe San Diego in California...
Am I anywhere close? - Ray.
Probably 99% of what people refer to as "blogs" are not blogs (= web logs). Rather they are public diaries.
Then there are those einsteins who publish carefully crafted articles online, and then discount their own efforts by calling it a "blog" (no doubt thinking its more hip). How come publishing articles was never called blogging before?
First they overloaded the word Internet to mean world wide web (leaving us no way to unambiguously refer to the Internet), next I'm sure all publishing on the web will be called "blogging", with all web sites being "blogs".
Of course this fad will pass too. Perhaps following the YouTube model everything will soon be "channels" instead. And people who maintain a personal web site are broadcasters.
The idiocy is mind numbing.
Ray,
I have friends in Anaheim (LA), and they delight in telling me how warm it is there, indeed we have had a few toasty trips to LA and San Diego this time of year.
I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area, but am working inland a bit in Livermore (not at The Labs).
Pretty good guess though,
I used to live not to far from EO, we used to see snow on the hills around us, and occasionally get it on the ground. I like to look at the snow, and maybe walk in it. But I hate driving in it.
Best snow day I've had was in Yosemite Nat'l Park on New Year Eve. We were worried we'd need chains. However we didn't see any snow until we paid to get into the park, then driven into the main valley and WOW. The valley floor was about 4 ft deep blanket of snow, but the roads were clear. Icicles like I'd never seen hanging from trees. Wonderful for us folks from snow-less Chester and not so snowy Manchester.
Yes, snow you can look at and say "That's pretty" and then go home and not have to deal with - my kinda snow.
Oh, we have had snow in the Bay Area. It causes a lot of excitement, about 1mm of it and everyone is trying to get to it!
It can linger in the shady hollows on the "mountains" outside San Jose for a week or so, but there is no access to it. I don't remember snow on Mt Diablo though.
So, after the first post, my blog already rated in the top 1%! Not bad... :-)
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