Tag: snow

  • Tito and I are taking off to Montreal today :) I promised I wouldn’t take my camera or computer (knitting, of course, is still coming. To do otherwise would be madness). To get my shutterbug out of my system I went out an hour before dawn this morning to snap some shots of the beautiful…

  • This morning I found a snow drift high enough to attempt a vertical snow angel =D Of course, I had to take a bit of a run at it – which means it was less like making a snow angel and more like trying to make a cartoonesque Shireen-shaped-hole in the Skydome, but still. Good…

  • Yesterday we were promised snow, and lots of it. Because I am short sighted and forgetful, when 7 pm passed and the snow failed to arrive I went out for dinner… in heels. Cue the snow! By the time I got home (thank goodness for the mobile, heated, oasis-on-wheels known as cars) it was a…

  • Day 5 we stayed in Hearst all day, but didn’t really do much. I think it was more about spending a day off the road and giving the car (Tito) a break! Day 6 we left Hearst heading east and south trough Kapuskasing, Cochrane, Iroquois Falls, Timmins and then making a massive loop back to…

  • Because, though my heart is in eastern Canada, the prairie provinces are gorgeous in their own austere way :) These were all taken in Selkirk, Manitoba. Winter by Walter de la Mare Clouded with snow The cold winds blow, And shrill on leafless bough The robin with its burning breast Alone sings now. The rayless sun,…

  • Hey everyone! I wanted to share some pics I took a few days ago – the very day in fact that I decided my camera needed it’s own cosy. These are the snowy steps leading down into the ravine by my place. For those of you fixin’ to berate me about ‘being careful’ on those…

  • Newsflash, folks – It does snow in Toronto. It snows frequently in fact, despite what other Canadian cities, the news, our previous mayor, these guys, and even some Torontonians, seem to think. The past two days we’ve been warned of this impending doom, only to wake up to a very pretty morning with some lovely…