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Well, we asked for a holiday in February, they called it "Family Day" and gave it to us so we decided to start making good use of it. Last year we met up with Matt in TO and went for a winter hike and picnic in High Park. This year we picked up Matt and headed for the Distillery District for a look around and a bit of lunch.
:-)
DJE
... stepping off the hard packed main trail at Lindsay Tract, I sank up to mid-thigh in the snow and waded several strides to get this scene framed the way I wanted.
Sometimes it is simply the unspoiled scene that moves me to make an image and preserve it for all time.
DJE
It was four weeks since I was at the cottage. Tobermory had been cut off from points south for almost two weeks due to high winds, blowing snow and white-outs closing Highway 6 from Wiarton north. When we arrived this past weekend, there was some digging to do just to get to the cottage door to get it open before I could get the snow-blower running.
Saturday began with a short hike on the roads around the cottage before we were off to hang a collection of my images at a local mercantile gallery (but that's a story for another blog post). I was anxious to get out and see how the winter storms had transformed the landscape but it was work first and I spent the rest of the day relaxing and puttering about the cottage, clearing some more snow and then settling in after dinner to watch the Leafs game.
Lynn made the suggestion of a hike to Little Dunk's Bay for Sunday morning and I thought the trail would be if relatively good shape to hike without snowshoes. When we headed headed out around 8:30, large fluffy flakes of snow were falling heavily (if that makes sense). The snow had accumulated more than I anticipated and the trees were covered with thick marshmallow like clumps of snow that tumbled down on us now and then as we made our way on the trail. I was stopping frequently to photograph the scenes, trying to capture the feel of the winter wonderland we were passing through ... but it was when we came out of the trees that I was stopped dead in my tracks by the scene below.
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| Little Dunk's 2014-02-09 |
I've said it more than once before on this blog, and I'll say it again ... I love Winter ! It`s better if you embrace it and get out to experience it rather than sitting inside wishing for summer. It's scenes and experiences just like this that make me enjoy winter so much. This is why I get out of a warm house or cottage and go for a hike, long or short it doesn't matter. These are the winter scenes that I love to find and capture.
For me and photography, this was a good day ... a very, very good day :-)
DJE
Here in Ontario we are in the middle of a "good old fashion Canadian winter". Memories of winters with lot's of snow are being stirred, fond memories of my youth, playing outside in the snow until I was wet and cold through to the bone. Winter really is better if you embrace it and find something to do outdoors when the scenery is blanketed in white.
... of course there are many who would disagree. In fact I think they are all bitc... errrr, complaining over on Facebook. It' has become something of a chore for me to check in on FB and wade through the moaning a groaning on my feed to get to the little bit there that's worth reading. Ahhh ... the burden of having a social media presence, but I digress.
This past weekend, I enjoyed time outside on local trails because we have been unable to get to our cottage. The main and only highway to Tobermory has been closed due to weather conditions. Relentless snow squalls and blowing snow for more than a week, have made road conditions poor enough that the route was completely closed. Although I'm quite keen to get up there to check on our place and capture the winter landscape.
Sooooo ... close to home, there was the Arboretum at University of Guelph. A fresh blanket of undisturbed snow made for some great winter scenes.
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| window onto winter |
DJE
