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Snow Day Cinderella on a shiny Monday in Vancouver

Walking past the blue public rental bicycles on a Monday in Vancouver and they are covered in freshly fallen west coast snow

It snowed overnight. Temperatures will be a handful of degrees below zero all week. By our southern west-coast of BC wussy standards it is cold. It is damp. There is wind. Skiers and snowboarders are happy, and likely high with the news of more snow. An upswing is expected in time for T.G.I.F. of +1 Celsius, daytime temperature.

There will be 5 entire Wednesdays, 5 Thursdays and 5 Fridays in this month of January 2020.  This Monday, however, will not come again, nor did it exist before – all bright and shiny and new.

street scene covered in snow on a Monday in Vancouver
Night snow for Cinderella

OK. not so sun-shiny, but a new shiny. The snow was not as bright as the wonderland of snow that covered the Prairie winter I grew up in. But our rare west coast city snow was on the grass, the branches, the roof top of the church across the street and all along the hedges. All was calm and steady and the air was totally different – clean and fresh in the truest ‘sense’.

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