Earlier this week I spent an evening in the darkroom. I made work prints of eleven different negatives, and at least two copies of each. These photographs were all taken during the Beer Parlour Project outing to the Bruderheim Hotel in early December. Our team officially refers to this outing as BP 9.0.
My friends Chris and Connie were supposed to travel up to Edmonton this weekend, and we planned to make a return visit to the Victoria Hotel in Bruderheim. This would have been BP 9.1. We hoped to be able to interview a couple of locals that were unable to make it out last time. And, I planned on handing out all the prints.
But winter officially arrived earlier this week. We got about four or five inches of desperately needed snow. But we also ended up in the deep freeze. For the past few days the daytime high temperatures have been up around a balmy -25C, and the night time lows below -30C. Going into the weekend it is forecast to get even colder.
We were forced to postpone and re-schedule our BP 9.1 return visit to Bruderheim. We are hoping we can arrange that at some point in the next couple of weeks.
My daughter Hailey is out at our cottage in Nordegg and it is even colder out there. The weather station is showing a temperature of -40C. I think it might be a little colder than that, but I believe the lowest that the unit can record is -40C. We are asking her to stay put and keep warm and not risk driving the highways back home until this cold snap breaks.
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