First Snowy Day of the New Year

I was so lucky to have great shooting weather for our late fall and the beginning of winter,  crazy clouds,  amazing sunsets , wild weather , -25C and below days,  we had everything in the span of a month,  Then it all melted and became a gray, brown very blah landscape.   I know overcast days can make for good shots , but for about a 2 weeks it really was hard to find something interesting.  Now its the New Year , and the snow is back. Hiding all that brown under a blanket of white :)   Today was fun, it was -7C or so with a nice fluffy snow coming down. I hope you enjoy these :)

Happy New Year ! Im back :)

Happy New Year!! 
I'm happy to say my New Year has started off great :)  After the disaster I had on Boxing day :( it didn't look very promising .  I was just about to install a back up hard drive, when my main drive mysteriously FAILED ...  most things were backed up well,  with the exception of the last 4 months.  Some where around 4500 shots were lost.   I managed to dload around 600 from various sites ( not full quality but a picture at least ! ) Then on New Years Eve, when I had given up on it ever working again ... it just started working again!!  The only thing i lost was all the tags i had applied, since i had reinstalled Picassa since :) 
I'm looking forward to my best year of photography ever !  I'm taking about 1000 shots a month now, compared to 100 before I started blogging about food and photos. 
I'll be back to regular posting soon , I have a lot of photos to reorganize now lol :)  Ill  leave you with these shots I just recovered ! 

Have your self a safe and happy year !!  and DON'T forget to back up your important files !!! 
Rich