Last night on the way back to Bridgewater, we had to stop for three deer standing on the road, they weren't in any hurry to get off the road.

Not sure if Nova Scotia is moving towards a new type of stop sign. On the road we travel to the site each day we pass this sign.

A close-up of the Stop Ahead sign.

Here is the actual stop sign that is just ahead.

The weather is pretty nice today, after two days of rain it was good to see the sun again.

I found some more wildlife in the building today. This guy had fallen into a garbage can and couldn't get out.

Protocol probably calls for it to be terminated, but as you can see the bucket fell over by accident while we were outside and he made a break for it.

The leaves are in full colour along the road we travel.

It is now listed as a post-tropical storm and it will move through the southwestern part of the province today. It started raining around 8:30 this morning and they are calling for up to 50 mm. The IR satellite photo from early this afternoon.

Arrived at the site today and given the forecast for the rest of the week, I decided to get as much done outside as I could. As the remnants of Hurricane Wilma are forecasted to pass through tomorrow and Wednesday, the less I have outside is better.

More Keji spiders, I found this guy when I opened up the door on one of my instruments. It is hard to tell from the photo, but it's behind the protective cover for the LCD display.

A closer look at the spider.

My next scheduled trip is back down to Kejimkujik in Nova Scotia towards the end of the month. It will be my fifth trip there this year.

Even though the temperatures warmed up towards the end of the week, the winds got stronger. It was a southeast wind, so it wasn't a cold wind, just annoying when trying to work outside.

The sky to the west looked like this.

The sky to the east looked like this.

Our site is located at the Baseline Surface Radiation Network station, basically in the middle of a farmers field..

I guess I spoke to soon, this morning there was frost on the windows. And since the rental had no scraper I had to wait for the defroster to do its thing.

It was a chilly morning, with the wind chill it felt like -11°C. Here is a photo of the van's temperature reading.

A few pictures of the early morning sky on the prairies.

I'm driving a Pontiac Montana this week.

It clouded over this afternoon, so there was no sunset.

It was a cool fall day on the prairies, I'm sure if there were some trees here they would have a hint of colour. There is the smell of the burning flax piles in the air.

Even though the temperature difference between Regina and Toronto is about 20°C, there is one positive note, I haven't had to scrape my windows in the morning. It is cold, according to the van I'm driving, it was -2°C this morning on the way to the site. Like the guy on the radio said, he can't believe that it's already time to start adding the plus and minus to the temperature forecasts.

I took this picture while waiting for my fast food at the drive-thru at A&W on Albert St in Regina. For one the food wasn't fast and even though there was only 1 car in front of me, it certainly wasn't a drive-thru. Proof of this was the fact that I had time to dig around the van for my briefcase and pull my camera out and take the picture. I know other places have similar spots, but I don't recall them being labelled like this, usually they have a sign indicating 1, 2 or 3.

When I landed in Calgary it was snowing! Not a lot but it was snow. Made it into Regina with no problems. Things I have learned while flying, don't ever sit in seat 8F on a WestJet 737-700 series plane, there is no window. If you fly on a CanJet 737-500 series don't sit in seat 6F, same deal.

Sitting in Terminal 3 waiting for my flight to depart. While the forecast in Toronto is calling for highs of 26° to 28° C this week. A quick check of the Regina forecast last night was calling for a high of 9°C and a chance of flurries on Tuesday. Although that is balmy compared to being in Alert. Probably a good thing that my trip to Alert was canceled, I heard that the people who did go up didn't arrive until the Saturday, their flight out of Trenton kept getting delayed.