Realism - more than Patriotism (1 Viewer)

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Good God, MM...the temp in my room here dropped 15 degrees just looking at those photos!

(beautiful countryside, by the way)

You should see how cold it is up here right now. The Midwest is experiencing the coldest temps in the country at the moment. The Mississippi is frozen over, unpassable at the moment. I drove over the bridge this afternoon on the way home from work, and it is as solid sheet of ice. Supposed to warm up over the next few days though.

 

[GrauGeist]

Well, to be honest, I am not used to extreme cold temps...I am a native Southern Californian were a typical winter would be a fridgid 50F degrees...lol
I have had to deal with minus 0 temps in the past and here in Redding (Northern California) it dips into the 20s - 30's overnight on average (it's 30F here at the moment) but MM's pics just gave me a chill...lmao

Be careful in that weather, it can be treacherous!

 

[michaelmaltby]

"... The Midwest is experiencing the coldest temps in the country at the moment. The Mississippi is frozen over, unpassable at the moment."

That's interesting ... we're having a good old fashioned winter. And thank you for the kind words .....

MM

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

"... The Midwest is experiencing the coldest temps in the country at the moment. The Mississippi is frozen over, unpassable at the moment."

That's interesting ... we're having a good old fashioned winter. And thank you for the kind words .....

MM

Yeah it is pretty normal here too...

I just always thought other parts of the Continental US would be colder than the Midwest. The reason for it is the cold air That comes down from you guys up in Canada.

 

[michaelmaltby]

"... The reason for it is the cold air That comes down from you guys up in Canada."

The jet stream giveth and the jet stream taketh away. Our local weather is very much determined by whether or not the Great Lakes are frozen --- and then how the jet stream reacts in terms of prevailing direction. Once Erie is frozen and Georgian Bay it greatly reduces Lake Effects snow ...

 

[michaelmaltby]

Saturday - yesterday's trip to the Highlands was wet and gray - treacherous drive in with inches of supersaturated snow on an ice base. [January thaw]

Birds fed, moose and deer tracks noted -- they love the rain - it makes their browse "succulent" ... . No photos ...

Instead, a flight to Naine on the northern coast of Labrador. Easter, 1972. Your pilot is Clayton Pilgrim, flying a Newfoundland Labrador Airways de Havilland Beaver, out of Deer Lake. [Note the long range belly tank and ski braces]

 

[michaelmaltby]

Sunday, January 20th - First Walk-in

Minus 7, dropping tonight to minus 24, winds @ 70 K

Snow devils in corn stubble. Kinmount bridge. Opening up. River. Willy's big beaver pond POV. Nasty driving home as temp falls and winds continue. Trent canal northwest leg out of Canal Lake to Kirkfield lift lock.

Feel great tonight for the walk in.

 

[michaelmaltby]

To pb

When I first joined this forum, pdfoot reached out to me over Merlin engines ... he wanted to know if I'd like to see some in action and I replied that I already had that luxury thanks to the Heritage Lancaster overflying my house on November 11 ceremonies (our Remembrance Day). With time I learned that he had fond memories of time served at Goose Bay Labrador in the RCAF. During that time he certainly had chances to fly over much of the same wild empty spaces of Canada's far north that I was privileged to see (as a non serviceman). So, this is a resurrection of a NORPAT in a Canadair Argus based in Greenwood Nova Scotia that I enjoyed in late May, 1972. We departed in the dark on a warm Sunday night and returned 5 days later - staging out of Frobisher bay on Baffin Island. In the artic at that time of year there really is almost no darkness.

The Argus, Canadair CP-107 Argus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, was an unpressurized aircraft so we spend a lot of time down on the deck making photo runs on bergs and dropping mail and magazines to weather stations and outposts via the sonobuoy tubes. The pilot was an ex-RCN Grumman Tracker pilot and he was a thrilling pilot. I spend huge amounts of time up in the clear plexiglass nose - bulk head door secured behind me in case of a bird strike. All in all a one in a million experience I will never forget.

pb - this post's for you.

MM
Proud Canadian

 

[michaelmaltby]

Sunday's walk-in from Willy's

Minus 10 @ 10 AM. Minus 3 by noon. Plus 10 by Tuesday.

 

[Matt308]

Whats the bird suet you hang from your eves?

 

[michaelmaltby]

In the winter months, my butcher saves the fat from around beef kidneys and I put in our freezer in the basement and take a chunk up every week from late November until the end of March -- after that you can start to expect bears and raccoons.

It's the only food I can leave that will last more than a few days -- even then -- in a cold week like this last once "the birds" can turn a kilo+ into ribbons in 7 days. Woodpeckers, chickadees, nut hatches and sometimes jays. I hang it in chicken wire wrapped in heavy electrical wire -- and sometimes also add an onion bag for friendlier packaging, but crows can take that apart.

MM

 

[michaelmaltby]

Out on the Ice

Upstream view. Downstream view.

Check out this -- the Viking Route -- in Norway. 'Maltby' is an anglicized 'Melby' - I'm told - by Norse Folk

A drive like this must be in your blood:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T4vc1QqiPM

 

[michaelmaltby]

February 9.

12" of fresh power. Minus 7

 

[Matt308]

Ah... norvegans. My peeples. At least from my wife's side.

My wife's grandfather was a Norwegian who was an Olympic long ski jumper. You should see the videos of the long jump form at that time with everyone rotating their arms backwards like a bunch of loonies.

What a wonderful gent he was.

 

[michaelmaltby]

During WW2, we in Canada were proud to host the Royal Norwegian Airforce while it trained - first in Toronto and then north near the town of Gravenhurst. Their base was known as Little Norway:

Little Norway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[vikingBerserker]

Awesome pics!

 

[michaelmaltby]

The Current Weather - in Perspective

Last week's big snow along the Atlantic Seaboard. State of the Great Lakes. Niagara Ice Bridge - [no freak event, eh PB?]. Just regular old fashioned winter weather.

The insurance companies and the media confuse $$$ pay-outs with climate cxxxge .... noodle-heads!

MM

 

[oldcrowcv63]

Beautiful photos MM, especially the Argus. Seems folks been living in Labrador for the last 7-10000 years or so.

6th millennium BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"c. 5600 BC: The Red Paint People become established in the region from present-day Labrador to New York state."

Canucks and Paleo-Canucks are evidently pretty tough folk. Glad you're on our side (most of the time at least).

Me? this is as much snow as I see these days and I can live with that for now. 2 weeks ago out my back door, 50 miles South of Norfolk VA. I aint' tuff no more. me northern blood has thinned.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Sunday, February 17th - Overnight minus 27 Minus 15 at lunch.

Walk in past Willy's. Call him. Feed the birds and eat lunch.

As Leks says ..."it's better than Ice Fishing "

 

[michaelmaltby]

March 2 - Minus 11 overnight. Minus 6 at noon.
We had rain and wet snow last week as part of the Texas low that swept up from the Gulf. Snow cover has shrunk and now is like styrofoam

Kinmount RR Station, ski-doo trail. Surprise at Willy's. Wolf pine that Leks learned to climb (and still does once a year). Raptor over Pigeon Lake, northwest of Peterborough