Christmas Eve photos...

[fajrdrako]

Because it's Christmas Eve, I got out my camera.

First, I asked the Little Feathered Guys to pose. They really tried, but sitting still isn't easy for them.


Logan is the blue one, Peter is the green one, and Jubilee is the yellow one in motion.



My friend Kermit, the crocodile from Ikea, showing off his special Christmas antlers on my chesterfield.


Remember how much it has been snowing? Then suddenly we got two days of above-zero temperatures, and rain. Lots and lots of rain. Two days of warmth and rain wasn't enough to wash away the snow, though, and today it's colder again, and snowing. So I took some pictures of the snow.



My street, looking towards the Rideau Canal.



My street, looking towards O'Connor St.

Comments

[chatona.livejournal.com]

Pretty snow! And I like the crocodile. :D

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, the snow is pretty. Especially now they've cleared away the huge snowbanks (and the rain did away with a lot of it, too) so you can see the houses again.

The crocodile thanks you for the compliment.

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

Aw. Merry Christmas, little feathered guys! :D

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

To which they reply: Chirp! and I reply: thank you!

Have a great Christmas.

[abrakadabrah.livejournal.com]

Huh, for some reason I pictured you living in an apartment building, not a house.

And I thought your birds were bigger. Maybe because I don't really know what
budgies are. I was picturing more like bigger size parrots - the kind that
pirates have. [g]

I'm up in Westchester for the holidays; when I first got here the place was
covered in frozen snow - would have been perfect for sledding down our
slope. Unfortunately, we got a day of rain and wind storms as well the
next day, and much warmer weather - there was beautiful mist rising
from the land as the rain hit the snow and the two temperatures
commingled, but it meant that most of the snow melted away and now
there isn't enough to sled.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I pictured you living in an apartment building, not a house.

You are quite right: I do live in an apartment building, not a house. My apartment building faces the houses pictured. The neighbourhood is mostly nice old houses, or nice old renovated houses. But along the canal, there are several apartment buildings. Mine is one of them. Overlooking and facing the houses.

My little guys aspire to be fierce piratical birds, but they are, in fact, quite small. (In stature, not personality.) Budgies are more like tiny parrots, not large ones.

Westchester? Isn't that where the X-Men live?

I'm sorry to hear most of your snow is gone, and I hope you get it back!

[dargie.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, nice snow pics. Do you have a sweet house like that?

And your babies? Absolutely gorgeous! You should be a proud, proud mommy. Oh, and Kermit looks quite festive. *g*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Do you have a sweet house like that?

Alas, no. In a neighbourhood of nice old houses I live in a tiny apartment in a rather large, rather nice apartment building.

Kermit is nothing if not festive.

And the Little Guys thank you for calling them 'gorgeous', an adjective to which they cheerfully and chirpily aspire.

Have a great Christmas!

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

It looks beautiful -- perfectly Christmassy. And the budgies are gorgeous.

We were worried at the rain creating havoc, but in fact it just lowered the snow level a bit. The snow is still beautifully outlining and cradling the houses.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

The budgies thank you for the compliment.

It's actually rather nice to have the snow level lowered. It's slippery in some places, but not too bad.

[acampbell.livejournal.com]

Merry Christmas!!!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Merry Christmas to you, and hugs to the girls. Have a wonderful day.

[acampbell.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Has your email addy changed, BTW?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

No, my e-mail is the same. azurite at rogers dot com.

[acampbell.livejournal.com]

Is fajrdrako@yahoo.com defunct, then?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, that one's gone.

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

Considering how high the snow was before the rain, I'm glad we had the thaw ... even if it means that some roads became skating rinks before the salt trucks turned up.

I wish that calcium chloride was not quite as expensive -- it would be less corrosive and damaging than road salt. [In ancient times, the standard way to destroy a city was to knock down all the walls and "plow the land with salt." It was a simple way to ensure nothing grew there afterward. Here we are, happily plowing our own cities with road salt. It's at times like these that I really wonder if many people in these post-modern times have any sense of history ... :-(]

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, I often think of the Romans and the Carthaginians when I see all the salt they ladel on Ottawa every year. Not to mention what it does to my boots.

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

Have a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New in 2008, while I am at it.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

The same to you! Have a lovely day tomorrow.

[raissad.livejournal.com]

Lovely little birds. :)Merry Christmas!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

The birds thank you, and say "Merry Christmas" in their chirpy Christmas singing.