Winter scenery

A footpath to a near grocery

Last weekend we got a huge amount of snow. It looks nice and gives nicely light into dark evenings, but....I myself particularly don't care much of it as a citizen. It brings so many problems for daily business. I don't like it as a professional driver.

After my fiancé has dug a tractor unit out of snow (he is so nice <3) I got off my way to a place where I left a semi-trailer. I found that it could take awhile before I will be on a road. Snowplows have given not so nice gift for me ;(     I couldn't done anything else than searched my shovel which isn't any snow scoop. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrenching_tool)
Also a neighbor driver has thrown some snow on my side as well. It took one hour for me to dug two straight lanes (sorry for a bad pic). Anyway, I got the tractor unit under the semi-trailer and then.... a problems with a fifth wheel coupling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_wheel_coupling
Luckily I finally got to go and didn't stuck in a snow which is very normal in these wintry days.

 Although roads were and still are really icy I can still enjoy of these fabulous sceneries. I'm driving this 10 miles route daily (next 5 pics). A road runs through very thick spruce forest. I think it is more nicer in a winter time than a summer time. Only bad thing is road maintenance work. Communes are saving as much money as they can in every direction and one target is roads. Crazy but so true as you can see. High ways are kept in the better condition by salted them all the time but these 'normal' roads look like this kind. They are truly slippery and very hard for any kind bigger cars than passenger cars. Tires are bigger and a width of a truck are needing wider driveway. It is understandable that a driver can't do much else than hold a steering wheel firmly with both hands and keep eyes on a road. My bad habit is taking pics when ever I see nice scenery....I do have a holder for my cellphone and I'm really just pushing a button without even look at the cellphone! There are more fail pics than successful.

One thing is what I'm waiting to see on this route is some wild animal. A bear would be the most exciting animal but truly - do I want to meet it in a middle of the night alone :=)  It is better just hope all wild animals stay in a forest because I really don't want to make any panic brake on this road.