In all kinds of weather, sisters stick together...

My sister visited for several days last week and got a good demonstration of Vancouver weather. The first day it was dumping rain, the second it was overcast but windy, the third it snowed like a new ice age was blowing in, and on the day she left it was cold, crisp and stunningly sunny. Happily, she embraced each day for its distinctive meteorologic mood, welcoming the novel conditions. 

Day 1: Rain

Day 2: Overcast

Day 3: Snow

Day 4: Sunshine

less blur, more brrr

Well if the seasons seemed blurry before, I think its safe to say they are now reasonably well defined. The snow makes a pretty clear distinguishing point between fall and full winter. So does maintaining temperatures below freezing. Brrr. At least the snow came in time to supply a white Christmas:)

blurring seasons

Apparently it was autumn when I last posted some photos—and it seems to be quite clearly wintertime now.  The seasons have kind of run together a bit...not least owing to celebrating Thanksgiving for well over a month. October saw multiple Canadian Thanksgiving gatherings...some before the fact, some after. Then American Thanksgiving festivities, (including a visit to my family in the States) followed closely by an early Christmas potluck dinner with my church and a Christmas celebration with my college. Basically, its been Thanksgiving or Christmas since about a week after the semester started. And that was just a week after summer ended. 

Here is my impression—in photos—of the general trajectory.

The seasons have blurred together, and quite honestly that affect seems to have spread to my Greek verb tenses...it finals week, and I have a three hour Greek exam to sit tomorrow. Apparently what is missing from the above photos in piles of books! But by late Friday afternoon there will be a clear cut change of seasons: I will be done with exams and the Fall semester will officially be over. I'm looking forward to the couple weeks break (including a visit from my sister!) before school starts again in the new year...although truth be told, I  already have my Winter term syllabi and a heap of books vying for my attention. But they will have to wait...at least till after Christmas:)