Gallery: Winter in Edmonton

 

Take a look at pictures from winter in Edmonton.

 
February 16, 2011
 
 
 
Bob and Skyler find a good use for all the snow that had accumulated on their roof in the month of January.
 

Bob and Skyler find a good use for all the snow that had accumulated on their roof in the month of January.

Photograph by: Carrie Sawatsky, edmontonjournal.com

 
Bob and Skyler find a good use for all the snow that had accumulated on their roof in the month of January.
Ice fog blankets Edmonton's skyline on a -30 day on Jan. 31, 2011.
Paula Paziuk walks her dog Tucker as Ice fog blankets Edmonton's skyline on a -30 day on Jan. 31, 2011.
Ice fog blankets Edmonton's skyline on a -30 day on Jan. 31, 2011.
Ice fog blankets Edmonton's skyline on a -30 day on Jan. 31, 2011.
City snow removal crews cleared off our north-west residential area street right down to the pavement Jan 29, leaving behind some not so tidy looking windrows. Across the street and farther down in front of the school building, a pair of Bobcats scooped the resulting windrow off the road and up onto the school lawn, reclaiming some badly needed street parking space.
Monks from the Rathchadham Buddhist temple take snow removal into their own hands in the neighbourhood of Kensington after not even being on the schedule for plowing.
Residents of Quarry Ridge Phase 1 digging out January 23rd as city is unable to respond to serveral calls for help.
Operators work to extricate a loader bogged down in heavy snow on a city cul de sac.
Taking advantage of the high snow bank between garages, my neighbors dog, Tazz, found an easy way up onto the gargage roof where he could survey his domain with his owner, Terri, looking on. Taken January 24th, 2010.
Gladys Wilson captured this scene of EPS officers dealing with stuck cruisers on a snow-clogged street.
Stony Plain water fountain in back yard.
Don't let winter get you down! Embrace the snow - have fun with it! Not sure what to do with all of that "driveway crud" you've been diligently scraping off? Here's a little 'do-it-yourself' project to while away those winter hours! Inukshuk built out of 'driveway crud' by Colleen Sayer of Edmonton. (And you wondered what retired people do to fill their days!!!)
Joachim Kraus shovels snow off his roof
After performing a dance called “New Spring”, four girls from Ottewell Junior High School’s bilingual program walked into the heavy snow and have a picture taken in front of the ice Chinese Gate. They are, from left, Olivia Wang, Anna Yang, Elizabeth Ng and Melanie Liu.
My dog loves the snow and passing through his reinforced snow tunnel is part of his daily play routine!
If we get more snow this sign near 107St. & 32 Ave., will be in need of snow removal in Edmonton , January 18, 2010.
You would think that this is a snowbank if you didn't see antennas sticking out from the cars in this lot near 63 Ave. and 104 St. in Edmonton , January 18, 2010.
EDMONTON ALBERTA JANUARY 17, 2011-Cars parked in Garneau are covered by the heavy snowfall in Edmonton Ab on Monday Jan 17, 2011.
It's obviously not the season for sports cars judging by the line of Camaros sitting in the snow beside Don Wheaton Motors in Edmonton.
Bonnie Sniedze had a pile of snow going bigger than a car on her garage pad in the Mill Creek area in Edmonton Ab on Tuesday Jan 18, 2011
Someone added a touch of artistry to a pile of snow along a Whyte Avenue sidewalk in Edmonton Ab on Tuesday Jan 18, 2011.
A snow blower is silhouetted by the setting sun as snow is cleared off a parking lot at the University of Alberta Campus January 11, 2011.
Andrew Hilbrecht stands beside the 'Windrow Watcher' made by the family, Jeff, Mary, Jessica (10), & Andrew (8) from the packed snow from their driveway in Bearspaw. "We just had to do something interesting with all the packed snow we were chiseling off the driveway."
A frosty-faced man named John takes a walk at Hawrelak Park Thursday as temperatures dipped to -23C degrees, which felt like -32C degrees with the wind chill.
Jessica Hilbrecht poses in front of a 'piggy backing' snowman she built with her mom during the warmer weather.
Commercial lighting evokes aurora borealis as it shines into a cold evening sky above Fort Road on January 11, 2011.
Bernard Chan is hard at work trying to make a path to the doorstep, January 8, 2011. Happy shovelling Edmontonians.
Sculptors Wang Jianhua, left, and Yu Zhiqiang, from Edmonton's sister city, Harbin, China, carve a 2,050- kilogram block of snow into a sculpture representing a masked character from the Beijing Opera on Saturday at the Edmonton International Airport. The sculptors are part of the Ice on Whyte festival, which runs from Jan. 13 to 23.
Our six-year-old daughter, Jadia Owen, enjoyed sitting up high on a huge snow bank while her daddy finished shovelling the snow off our driveway this afternoon. What a great snow day it was for the kids!
On a snowy, cold early afternoon of January 8, 2011, a flock of Bohemian Waxwing visited the Meadowlark community of west Edmonton. They stoped just long enough to gobble on the berries left on the mountain ash and chokecherry trees in front of our house. A berry feast for them and a feast for the eye for my husband and me!
After a beautiful snowy walk along Candy Cane Lane, Christine Mayans eyes say it all: "Ilove Edmontons' winters."
A rabbit burrowed into a snow bank in front of our house. He must have been there for hours because he was almost covered and there were no tracks!
A different kind of sun dog.
Sheila Durocher, Lawrence Durocher, Oscar Perales and David Molina of Delta Landscaping and Snow Removal, shovel out the Main Post Office downtown in Edmonton Ab in the heavily falling snow on Saturday Jan 8, 2011.
Sheila Durocher, Lawrence Durocher, Oscar Perales and David Molina of Delta Landscaping and Snow Removal, shovel out the Main Post Office downtown in Edmonton Ab in the heavily falling snow on Saturday Jan 8, 2011.
Bob Holzer surveys Snow Valley Ski Hill through his ski goggles before embarking on an afternoon of skiing.
Skier Jo-Ann Hope heads through ice fog in Victoria Park.
A skier heads through ice fog in Victoria Park.
A squirrel zips about on the snow in the river valley in Edmonton, January 5, 2011.
 
 
 
 
 

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