Orchid...look at that beautiful snow...and I love the two of you...your man is very, very, handsome. We have another hunk on the site. Gosh...you look so happy. Take care, thanks for sharing and Merry Christmas, sweetie!

Beautiful - especially the red against the snow, lovely contrast!

Orchid,
Love the pictures. That snow photo reminds of the winters we
went snowmobiling, which was from 1969 to 2004. Your scenery
looks like the countryside around here. Love seeing you and your
man together. Great stuff!

Photo was taken in a x-country skiing and snowshoeing mountain area about 150 kms. west of Vancouver. Lots of hiking in spring to fall. On the day of that photo, there was no wind and temps. just around 30F degrees or abit lower and just winter magical wonderland all around. The snow can be deep..fluffy and pure white. So different from city snow.

Pic taken a few years ago, but does evoke the feeling of several Christmases, where we've been to different ski mountain resort areas in our province in past winters...peaceful, awesome and snowy. Trees are soaring high compared to other provinces, because the trees get more rain along northwest Pacific coast during other seasons. (Anne you should know this also.)

I hate being out in the snow but love looking at beautiful pictures of it and that is one lovely winter scene.

The Christmas card of the two of you is awesome, you look so happy!

That is a lovely winter scene, Orchid. The other one is nice too.

orchid, where's your bike? Doesn't it have snow tires? Now there's an invention!

Thanks for sharing your Christmasy photos. They're lovely.

Orchid, these photos are just Gorgeous! You are in the Vancouver area? I am a travel junkie and I really, really want to visit Vancouver. When we visit Seattle we are thinking about going to Vancouver at the same time. Not sure when that will be but hopefully sometime this year.

Hi P.J. Elsewhere I explained the other 2 latter photos of buildings relaed to Olympics.
http://www.boomerwomenspeak.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=196989#Post196989

Do come to Vancouver, B.C. It's 250 kms. north of Seattle. One can take the Amtrak train from downtown Seattle into downtown Vancouver. If you don't feel like driving. Or flying to Vancouver, the airport is directly connected to the light rapid transit station and will get you downtown in less than 20 min. Let's see it costs about $5.00 one way. Cheaper than taxi.

I've been to Seattle several times and have stayed there downtown, biked around, etc.

Seattle's downtown waterfront is quite different from Vancouver's..because decades ago Vancouver nixed the idea of building a major expressway through the heart of downtown. It would have destroyed our waterfront view.

Lots to see. Best times of year to visit Vancouver / seattle is May to Sept., when there's less rainy days. You would love our weather...and air is fresher here because we are on the coast.

Feel free to pm me any time.