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It’s here! It’s here! Winnipeg can now be stalked seen from afar the way we Winnipeggers see it ourselves as we walk its alternately sand/gravel/ice covered sidewalks.

The first sightings of the Google Street View camera car were reported early in the spring. This was disappointing to me and many others because, frankly, the city looks like crap in the spring. Not only are the trees grey and leafless (absent of the beautiful winter accoutrements of snow and hoarfrost), but the boulevards are strewn with the debris left by receding snowbanks. It’s not a pretty time.

Fortunately, it seems that the Google team stuck around long enough for parts of the town to be photographed in their full, leafy glory.

It looks like they worked their way inward — outlying neighbourhoods weren’t so lucky. That said, Riverview looks not unbecoming in this shot:

It’s December first; here’s November’s Video Scrapbook. If you’re unfamiliar, each month I take a bunch of video on my point-and-shoot digital camera and then edit it together and set it to music. In these videos you see little snapshots of my life and the people and places in it. I’m planning to complete and entire year’s worth of these — April 2009-March 2010. I didn’t start out with that kind of grand plan — in fact, the first video was meant to be a one-off — but then it just seemed natural to continue. That means this project is 3/4 done!

In this edition, you’ll see that there is a lot more darkness/less sunlight, but surprisingly little snow. Don’t worry. It’s coming.

Links to previous scrapbooks can be found below. Enjoy! And happy December.

Previously:

• October Video Scrapbook

• September Video Scrapbook

• August Video Scrapbook

• July Video Scrapbook

• June Video Scrapbook

• May Video Scrapbook

• April Video Scrapbook