For those of you reading this that aren’t from southern Alberta, please know the weather isn’t always like this.

In fact, as I’m typing this on Thursday morning, it is a sunny 14 C and getting warmer. Stepping outside I can smell the damp grass and fallen leaves and hear the sparrows chirping and the magpies yakking. The air is still and the sun is hot.

Gorgeous.

But for the third week in a row I am presenting to you a cold, snowy, blustery scenario, a half-frozen landscape that looks just as miserable as it felt. If you aren’t living in southern Alberta, you would be forgiven for thinking winter had fully arrived and we were huddled in our homes waiting — hoping — for spring to arrive.

But no, it’s just that I have a deadline of Thursday afternoon for my story and pictures to be done so I need to go have my adventures on Monday or Tuesday in order to have enough time to get things together. And, by pure coincidence, the worst weather of the last month has shown up on those exact days.

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A cold wind was blowing out of the northwest as I left the city Tuesday morning but at least there wasn’t any snow yet. Low clouds were scudding along and I could see what looked like snow coming down to the west but until I turned off the big highway at Mazeppa, nothing was coming down where I was.

There were puddles on the road, though, so either rain or snow had fallen as this cold front blew in. On a roadside pond where a small flock of wigeons were idling there was a bit of ice. And there was snow on the ground on the east side of Frank Lake between High River and Blackie. I found a few........

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