i pity the fool...

i woke up this morning, only to be greeted by this view. that is my balcony out there, completely covered in a pile of snow.

no exaggeration... it snowed non-stop from Thursday to Saturday. when the skies finally cleared, there was something in the region of two feet of snow on the ground. but it did not stop there.

we woke up this (Monday) morning to whiteout conditions across the greater Montreal area on account of even more snow. it was so bad that there were very few cars out on the main roads leading to the heart of downtown... on a Monday morning. it was generally understood to be a day when you venture out of doors only if absolutely necessary... and it absolutely was not necessary in my universe.

then i made the mistake of opening the balcony door—which was a bit of a surprise in itself, as it was frozen shut all weekend.

see that little glimpse of black under there? that is one of the ten-gallon planters for the balcony garden project. we keep them double-stacked on the balcony during the Winter. somewhere out there is a row of large ten-gallon planters, stacked on top of other large ten-gallon planters... and all you can see is the corner of one pot, because the rest of them are buried under a mountain of snow.

these planter boxes (like the one i grew strawberries in last Summer) are about two-and-a-half feet wide, and they appear to be covered by about two-and-a-half feet of snow.

there is another one somewhere in that odd formation of snow. kinda looks like a neck-pillow for a polar bear.

and the third one is so weighed down, it looks like it is going to fall any second now. good times.

it was still snowing pretty heavily at this point.

the lady across the street has one of those big dogs that looks like it should be pulling a sled in the Arctic, which seems appropriate in this setting.

i pity the fool who has to dig this car out of all that snow.

want to know the best part? we are supposed to get even more of the stuff during the course of the week. good grief!