Freezing Out West...

I'm afraid that this post only involves eye candy and no knitting content. I went to visit my husband last week in Edmonton and we took a weekend trip to Banff, Alberta. As you can see, Santa arrived there early this year. You know, I think I could get used to living in a place where you can drive 4 hours and be in the rocky mountains. Not bad at all.

People have also assured me that last weekend was a freak occurrence and it's not usually below -20 degrees centigrade for an entire week at a time in November. Upon mentioning this to my good friend Ivanova, she kindly offered to make me a pair of nice warm mittens. They'll certainly come in handy (pun intended) when I finally move away from my PhD prison.

And now for some pretty pictures! The first one is of a frozen Lake Louise...