A beautiful Winter Wanderland....

 January 15, 2024

The snowshoes are out and in use...finally!

It has been an incredibly long, overcast and dreary stretch of days. Seems like it has been months since we've had a full sunny day. Everyone is missing the sun. Friday was sunny, as was today. Sunny days are especially savoured as they have been so rare of late!! The sunshine causes prisms of light to reflect off of the snow, like myriads of diamonds have been strewn across the surface. 

We had a good dump of snow over the past weekend, and temperatures are staying down enough to ensure we will be keeping it. Today, we drove around the lake and could see where folks have been going out along the edges to ice fish, and the entire surface of the lake is completely frozen over. It was -11C this morning, perfectly in the -10 to -15C (14F - 5F) range of temperature that I love. Cold enough to need a few extra woolies, but not so cold that your eyelashes freeze together!

I spent a bit of time in my sewing room on the grey days, the rainy days, the muddy days..... I tore my fabric stash out, reorganized and tidied it up. It is a pleasure to open the cupboard doors now and just look at it! I have also been doing a little sewing on some projects, and have a Fair Isle cardigan on the needles, just starting into the colour work around the neckline. 

There is a good padding of new snow over the crust formed when it rained on the previous snow. The depth of snow is encouraging the deer to head to yards, and there are deer tracks dragging through the snow everywhere. On our little jaunt today, we saw 6 deer cross the road just as we came out of the driveway.

We tramped around and picked up the SD cards from the trail cameras this afternoon. There wasn't much activity on the cameras during the miserable weather, but now we are seeing a few critters. We captured a couple of nice shots of our local fox.

He and she, (we are pretty sure there is a pair) make the rounds regularly. They always take advantage of any packed trail, and their tracks are always visible in the morning, coming and going along the drive, after any light skiff of snow.