Later tonight, much of the world will no doubt gather round to enjoy the open­ing fes­tiv­i­ties of the 2010 Win­ter Olympics in Vancouver.

And while I could prob­a­bly write an entire post about the glo­ries of the beau­ti­ful city of Van­cou­ver (the art! the cof­fee! the food! and on and on) instead I’ll share my favorite 2010 Olympics-related promo to get you in the mood for tonight’s open­ing ceremonies:

I just love this piece STUDIO AKA pro­duced as a BBC promo.

How about you dear read­ers? What do you depend on dur­ing harsh winters?

Images:
mine, 2, 3, 4, 5,6

With Snow­poca­lypse 3 (THREE?!) rag­ing out­side my win­dow, I sup­pose now is as a good a time as any to share a few more pic­tures from Snow­poca­lypse 2:

Unless you live under a rock or more likely, are one of my read­ers from abroad you might not know that this week­end brought Bal­ti­more an his­toric blizzard.

So this after­noon once the snow had stopped, I helped my fam­ily dig out. My mum was kind enough to sup­ply the fol­low­ing video of my father and I shov­el­ing their mas­sive drive:

Ok, so my sense of humor is espe­cially punchy today– we’re all a lit­tle batty from the miles of sparkling white everywhere…

Today finds Charm City buried once again, in a blan­ket of sparkling white. The effect is beau­ti­ful, bewil­der­ing and even a lit­tle inspir­ing though at some point after hours of shov­el­ing, the snow will become less than charm­ing. In the mean­time, here is a piece of visu­ally stun­ning eye/brain candy straight from Japan for you, dear read­ers, snow­bound or otherwise:

Doesn’t this just make your eyes smile and the snow a lit­tle more fun?

July

Sun­set on the estuary

August

Sep­tem­ber

Octo­ber

Novem­ber

Decem­ber

How are YOU cel­e­brat­ing the hol­i­days, dear readers?

Years ago, I found this coat. It is more of a piece of art­work than it is a wardrobe item:

What keeps you warm this time of year, dear readers?

Last night brought a snow­storm the likes of which the City has not seen in years… in ’96 I spent a week snowed in dur­ing the big storm… today does not look much dif­fer­ent, except the snow keeps com­ing so much faster

I live close to a state high­way, here it is this after­noon– so empty you could sit down and have a pic­nic

The USPS lived up to their promise of “nei­ther rain, nor sleet, nor dark of night” today, yay mail!