Spring In LaRonge

FTLComm - LaRonge - Monday, April 15, 2002 - Pictures by: Judy Shire

The remarkable transition from winter to spring is definitely one of the most positive things in life and we often wonder what it must be like to live in a climate that does not go through this annual transformation from the dead of winter to the promise of a new year of growth. Last Tuesday afternoon Judy Shire drove from Tisdale to LaRonge and clicked these images of the countryside East of Weldon with the thin coat of what remains of a very light winter's snowfall. On Wednesday afternoon after work she went for a walk clicking some images as she went along. The Wednesday sky was dull and the fresh snow from the weekend covered the ground in the usual appearance for a winter day. Then on Thursday afternoon she went on the same walk once again clicking images along the way. Below are the two afternoon walks shown mixed together. It is easy to identify the Thursday images with the bright blue and cumulus clouded ski like that at the top of this page in sharp contrast to the dull gray of the day before. These pictures show how spring came to LaRonge this year.

Last night while from Prince Albert and across the Northern Saskatchewan grain belt we were getting rain but LaRonge was trounced with a heavy snow fall that is quickly melting today.