Monday, January 22, 2007

A winter wonderland

After a bit of a hiatus from the world of blog, I'm happy to say I'm back. I've had the opportunity to do some very cold but beautiful trips out here in the East!

This photo was taken near Quebec City. It is the St Lawrence River looking rather frozen and icy.



This again is Quebec with the St lawrence in the foreground. After being spoiled with 4 years of "cold" weather in PR, I'd nearly forgotton how cold a winter could be. Luckily AC Jazz has some goose down jackets to keep the delicate pilots warm during our walk arounds. (A walk around is what I do before the plane is flown...I check all the gadgets and rivets to make sure everything looks good before we fly. Actually, I don't really know what I am doing but sure but I have all the passengers fooled looking all important in my fancy hat and brand new goose down jacket.)



This is Mont-Sainte-Anne, a huge ski resort near Quebec. I think I was pretty lucky to see it so clearly!



This is another picture of the almost frozen St Lawrence, looking East, between Montreal and Quebec. Apparently it does actually freeze solid in the winter.



This is the view west.



As we were flying along the other day, we saw these cool rolling wave clouds (not the actual technical term). I have no idea how they are formed, but it certainly made for some neat pictures!



Is that not the coolest thing you've ever seen?



An air traffic controller had this Air Canada Airbus A330 pass us at about 5 miles off our wing and 1000 feet above us. It was descending into Montreal after it's long journey from Paris. Did you know that approximately 2500 seats (pilot talk for people) travel from Montreal to Paris every night? Crazy French people!!



We had to hold our position on the taxiway in order for this Armed Forces C-130 Hercules to taxi by in Quebec City. One day I'm going to be in the big leagues, and people are going to have to hold their position for ME!!



Just to finish off.....another beautiful sunset view out of the office window. Nothing beats a gorgeous sunset to accompany my Tim Hortons Double Double at the end of the day!

4 Comments:

Blogger "E" squared said...

Glad to see you are back up and running. Great photos... it's about time you got some stinkin' snow out your way (only 10 more feet and you will be caught up to us!)!!!

10:15 PM, January 24, 2007  
Blogger Homebodies said...

Hey, glad your hiatus if over. We've missed checking out what the world looks like from up there in the sky. Sounds like you've got it really rough...Tims, fluffy warm jacket, gorgeous scenery of land and water, the mountains, cool cloud waves, & sunsets...life is good, hey!

1:42 AM, January 25, 2007  
Blogger pauline said...

Loved seeing the Hercules, been around a long time....Romy and I used to catch a ride from airforce base in Germany to the UK or wherever in the 60's. As a troop carrier etc, seats were along the sides, back to the windows, cargo was secure in the middle of the fuselage, which we got to stare at. Quite often there were trucks/jeeps on board.

Hercs flew in most weather, one time a jeep broke free of its mooring, that was exciting and scary, plane was being buffetted by high winds, and a jeep loose!
After that panic, I asked for the washroom.....

A corporal got out a piece of plastic and a bucket..he held the plastic as a "curtain". I had 40 guys looking my way with grins on their faces, I was 23 years old, blonde and 100lbs and very embarassed..before I could decline..a Sgt shouted "all eyes left"...and I sat down in peace!. And Nope, I couldn't!!!.

2:55 AM, January 25, 2007  
Blogger Bean said...

Wow! You are really good at blogging and taking pictures! I love the descriptions of all the pictures, and I am envious of your "view from the office." Rather breathtaking at times, isn't it!!

8:43 AM, January 25, 2007  

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