We are going through a crazy heat wave right now. I want to spend every day at the beach, like I did last Friday!
Nikaela (my favourite local blogger) wrote a lovely tribute about our dear prairie city:
In winter, I wake up to my radio alarm clock warning me about -47 degrees celsius (-50 degrees f). frost bite, hypothermia, loss of limbs. Yesterday that same radio alarm woke me warning me of +46 c. (116 degrees f) heat stroke, sun stroke, etc
Because we are landlocked, because we are far enough north to get that cold, because of a host of other factors I don't understand, we get some of the biggest extremes in the world. It makes for a certain type of personality, I think. In winter we keep going with school/work/life even when we have to plug in our cars and shovel for hours to get out of our driveways. And in summer (because we must take advantage of it, because soon it will be winter again), we play outside with hats and sunscreen and hot dogs and put off getting an air conditioner, when most southerns would look at us like we're nuts. Maybe we are nuts.
Because we are landlocked, because we are far enough north to get that cold, because of a host of other factors I don't understand, we get some of the biggest extremes in the world. It makes for a certain type of personality, I think. In winter we keep going with school/work/life even when we have to plug in our cars and shovel for hours to get out of our driveways. And in summer (because we must take advantage of it, because soon it will be winter again), we play outside with hats and sunscreen and hot dogs and put off getting an air conditioner, when most southerns would look at us like we're nuts. Maybe we are nuts.
happy swimming!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful pictures. Stay cool.
ReplyDeletewow, the weather really sounds extreme!! I am not sure which I would fear more: the -47 degree in winter or the +46 degree in summer! WOW!!
ReplyDeleteenjoy your time at the beach, the pictures are really cool! great perspective!
aw!!! you are the sweetest! i love that you loved this!
ReplyDeletewhich beach did you go to? patricia is my favourite.
the humidity broke this morning hey? siiiighghhhhh sweat relief!
happy thursday!
xxx
its hot like that here right now too... growing up in a year round moderate climate never seemed that extraordinary. now it does.
ReplyDeleteYIKES! Stay cool! XO.
ReplyDeletewow! those are some crazy extremes!! we've been getting a heat wave here in michigan too, today being the hottest (100+). i can't even imagine what 116 feels like!!
ReplyDeletebeautiful pics.
ReplyDeleteyou are cute cute cute skini mini!
ReplyDeleteOkay seriously, that weather is crazy. I'm not sure how you handle it so well!
ReplyDeleteLove the beach photos.
love these photos. it is SO hot here too... atleast you have a beach nearby ;)
ReplyDeleteit's definitely possible I've said this before, and if not you've surely heard it a million and one times... your pictures are so stunning. I wish I could transport myself into the moments that you capture.
ReplyDeleteMan.. you guys getting heat up there too?
ReplyDeleteI love the space you gave to the sky in proportion to the rest of the pics
Oh wow, those are crazy extremes! It's about 115 degrees F here, too, but we have such mild winters.
ReplyDeleteYes! You must swim swim AND swim to stay refreshed from the blistering heat. Everyone is complaining on my facebook (everyone from back "home" that is) Stay cool, and eat a popsicle or two :) Kim xo
ReplyDeleteI guess that's what most Canadians are blessed with - these sweltering, lovely summers that we all crave after a long winter. Of course i say that with a grain of salt being a westcoaster in Vancouver - we don't nearly have to shovel for hours on end (although we get week after week of monotonous rain). we've barely had a summer here on the west so I envy your beach days!
ReplyDeleteI TOTALLY get it, the whole no air conditioning thing and always being outside in summer. I really do. I lived in Chicago for years and high tailed it on out of there to someplace warmer! Winter is just too brutal, so you gotta soak up every last bit of summer while you can!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, these are seriously gorgeous shots. You are so talented behind the lens, even if you do accidentally end up in shots like the above post :)