Uploaded "Autumn Elegy No. 1" excerpt to SoundCloud

Here's a one minute or so excerpt from some moody strings backed by some stormy, yowling weather.  It's called "Autumn Elegy No. 1". The whole piece is about three minutes long.

My wintry piece of music "Winter Breaks" uploaded to SoundCloud

Lovingly built with synthesized sounds and music loops, I hope you'll enjoy my wintry piece of music over the holiday season. It's called "Winter Breaks" and you can listen to it in its entirety through my SoundCloud account.

First big snowfall of the season for Victoria

The meteorologists were right about the effect of El Nina on Victoria's weather for the coming winter. The first hard snowfall at sea level started coming down on the morning of November 22, 2010. The Canadian government weather office Web site is calling this "flurries", but it looks like a solid, socked-in snowdown to me.