After yesterday’s aborted business trip to Burnaby, low speed braking problems, a tree falling across a road, and uphill tantrums, my car managed to get home only to see my parking spot taken. The bastard eventually moved but not before the roof collapsed on a family member’s car (which amazingly got away with only a small dent). And not before my partner fell in the middle of the road and lost his iPod cover forever to the treachery of the blizzard.

After an hour and a half of digging out my car and re-parking it in its rightful spot this morning, I can finally enjoy the beauty of the weather. From the inside, with the curtains drawn and a generous helping of macaroni and cheese. I’ll worry about getting to work tomorrow. (Tuesdays are my Mondays but the joke will be on me when I drag my sorry ass over the frozen-over slush the rest of you will scrape over our streets today.)

Between staring at the white serenity outside, I’ve visited Flickr to spy on what others in the Lower Mainland see:

• Illustrator Kirsti Wakelin‘s before and after shot (plus a snow gauge)
• Kristi Tatebe‘s well-endowed snow woman in Kits
• Matt Stewart‘s “beer drinking male devil snow man“
• Doug Murray‘s early morning tunnel and his back alley; someone – it may have been in this morning’s Province – said that snow makes even back alleys beautiful
• Erich Harvey has a whole photo post on Vancouver’s snowfall, with my favourite being the snow on leaves
• Travis also went on a snow photo expedition (and he’s still drinking the tap water without a hint of diarrhea!)
• Miss Tillie‘s Narnian lamp post

As for the obligatory dogs-in-snow cute overload-style photos, here they are:

• Matthew Good’s beautifully coiffured dog (also here)
• Dangerous Penguin‘s two dogs in the snow and one with an especially snowy face
• Knepomuk‘s beautiful redhead of a Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever
• MaikoPunk‘s Levi rolling around in the snow
• Jutta MaueKay‘s weird snowdog hybrid

Let’s not forget the crows.