Here today, gone tomorrow

And now, when I look at my title, I'm not so sure. Snowed yet again overnight, letting us know that winter is certainly not over yet (though we knew that already). Noticed these beautiful ice crystals near the edge of the Bow River when I was on a walk at Lafarge Meadows, Fish Creek Park, on 11 February 2013.

None of My Contacts photos have been showing up on my Home Page for around 14 hours now, as of 7:30 a.m. this morning. Same thing happening for other people, too. So, apologies if I've been missing your latest posts. I wonder if this is related to the problem with blank thumbnails that I wrote about two days ago.

www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157632968645830/

Message from the Help Forum, below, about the first problem I encountered, starting the other day.

"On Thursday, we made some infrastructure changes to parts of our Farm3 which caused these broken thumbnails. Farm3 was running on some hardware and storage that's no longer up to standard. The new setup is faster and all around better but we made a mistake with some of the configuration. We have since fixed the thumbnail problem.

If anyone is still experiencing this problem, please post in this thread the link to the Flickr page that shows the problem. Please include your physical location - country or USA state is enough detail.

Flickr is growing and we're trying to stay ahead of the technical demands on our infrastructure. We'll continue to upgrade parts of our farms and threads like this one keep us honest.

We apologize for this mistake and are thankful for your help.
* * * John"

Monday 11 March 2013 - 12:00 noon, Hold Your Clicks a Moment ......