Alberta: Get Rich or Die Trying

Photo post: Springtime in Edmonton redux

  

As everyone here in Alberta is aware, we've seen a little bit of a shift in the weather in the last couple of days.  After but a fleeting taste of shirtless-lawnmowing weather last weekend, the denim cutoffs and Banana Boat have been put back into the closet and it pretty much sucks.

The one bright side: this has given me an opportunity to document the final pillar of an Edmonton springtime. This is, of course, the walk down the razor's edge between weather that most of North America would tolerate and weather that we tolerate. There's only a few of 'em; click here to see.

PS Does anyone else find it weird when they look outside at 8:30 pm to see the combination of daylight and blizzard?

Photo post: Springtime in Edmonton

Let's face it: spring is not when our province -- and particularly Edmonton -- are at their aesthetic peak. The snow, when it melts, reveals an entire season's collection of litter, road sand, and general filth, and the resulting runoff fuses with these things to create a disgusting detritus cocktail that coats the city in brown until about June. It can be a tough couple of months for the peepers, but there are, amongst the filth, the occasional moments of aesthetic respite.

Last week I took a trip around parts of the city and did my best to capture a few of these things for AGRDT's first photo post -- we're officially multimedia.

The above picture is just a hint of mediocrity to come! To see the rest of the pictures, click here.