Posted in Events, Ryder Photo, Stuff, tagged "Ryder Photography", canada, contest, kids, ontario, photo, photography, prizes, sculpture, snow, snowman, waterdown on March 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The results from the Waterdown Snow Sculpture Contest are in!
GRAND PRIZE WINNER – Keiran Griffin of Waterdown with his medal bearing trio of Inukshuks and snow penguin.
RUNNER-UP – Samantha Appleman of Waterdown with her colourful Underwater Garden.
Congratulations to both Keiran and Samantha! They both win a great collection of prizes from our sponsors:
Thank you to [...]
Posted in Events, Ryder Photo, Stuff, tagged "Ryder Photography", canada, contest, kids, ontario, prizes, sculpture, snow, waterdown on February 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
When Boston Pizza in Oakville tweeted today they were having a Snow Sculpture Contest I thought let’s have one in Waterdown & Flamborough!
So here’s the scoop – last minute, but it’s for fun!
Build a snow sculpture of any kind, can be a snowman, a dinosaur, an igloo or whatever takes you like as long as [...]
Posted in Dog Photography, Ryder Photo, tagged "Ryder Photography", canada, dog, ontario, photo, photography, portrait, portraits, snow, waterdown, winter on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Meet Cali. I was out photographing my young son sledding today and this energetic, powerful and fun loving doberman arrived with her owners. She was having such a good time tearing around in the snow I had to grab a shot. 4 feet off the ground, snow flying, Cali was loving it!
Posted in Stuff, tagged ontario, snow, storm, winter on March 11, 2008 | Comments Off
Sunday proved to be a glorious sunny day with not too much wind. It also proved to be hard on the body as we had to hand shovel the driveway since our snow-thrower decided to pack it in At least Justin had fun whipping around on the ATV clearing snow at [...]
Posted in Stuff, tagged march 8, ontario, snow, storm, winter on March 9, 2008 | Comments Off
We managed to clear the snow Saturday afternoon, about 8″, and Justin cleared a couple of inches Friday night. He cleared the deck off tonight, another 8″. So it seems we’ve had around 18″ so far. It’s still snowing! Hopefully it will stop overnight. We’ll have to scrounge around for [...]
Posted in Stuff, tagged blizzard, canada, snow, weather, winter on March 8, 2008 | Comments Off
It’s Saturday afternoon and we’re waiting out yet another dumping of snow! We’re expecting 30-50cm (12-20″) and strong winds creating whiteout conditions, we’ll see if we actually get that much. We got a call last night that a realtor wanted to show our house today. During the middle of a snowstorm? [...]
Posted in Stuff, tagged canada, ontario, snow, snow storm, winter on March 5, 2008 | Comments Off
It seems each Friday we get a significant dumping of snow. I’m not tracking the snow fall, though this would have been an interesting year to do that, but my instinct and recollection say this is one of the snowiest years Southern Ontario has had since I came to Canada in 1982. Then again I spent 8 [...]
Posted in Events, Stuff, The Ryders & Family, tagged heritage, locomotive, log buildings, pioneer, snow, The Ryders & Family, village on February 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today was Family Day in Ontario, a new statutory holiday to encourage families to spend some time together. So what is a family supposed to do in the middle of February? Well we took a trip to a local pioneer village, Westfield Heritage Village. The village has a collection of [...]
Posted in Stuff, tagged melt, snow, snowman, winter on January 10, 2008 | Comments Off
After such a wonderful and white Christmas and New Year, Ontario experienced a couple of days of unseasonably warm weather. January is usually our coldest month but we hit highs of plus 15 degrees celcius (we’d normally be -5 to -15) with strong gusting winds. The result of the warm weather and wind [...]
Posted in Stuff, The Ryders & Family, Thomas, tagged kids, snow, snowman, winter on January 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A new snowman sprung up on our front lawn after a dumping of snow on New Year’s eve. He stood well over 6-ft tall and quite an attraction stopping cars as they drove by. Some even pulled over to take a picture of him!
Thomas and his new snowman on Jan. 1st.
