The winter we never got has finally arrived — at least for a few hours.

Calgary got hit by a snow squall this A.M. (April 10th), bringing us snow loads which we haven't seen for the entire winter.  Royce phoned all excited and asked if I wanted to go shoot later today.  I'd do it, but for three things:

• can't get the car out of the driveway
• the snow is supposed to segue into rain later today, and
• I've got someone coming over this afternoon.

Anyways, a few pics:

The view out my back deck from my home office.  This was bare deck last night (I barbecued out there).  I'm actually worried about the snow loads — we've received over 8 inches (30 cm) since about 5:30 A.M. (it's now just coming up to 10:00 A.M.), and the trees are starting to bend alarmingly.  They're shedding snow, but maybe not fast enough?...

My front driveway (not where the car is, thank God).  Imagine a great big branch coming down on a poor unsuspecting parked car.

Across the street.  I'm thinking Calgary's gonna have lots of "fender-benders" today — I'm guessing somewhere around a thousand or so, as well as several much more serious injury accidents.  We need the moisture, by why-o-why couldn't this have been rain?