October 13, 2006

How to Handle Winter

Filed under: Reflections - Ric @ 11:11 am

This morning, the harbinger of cold left it’s calling card on my windshield. It was the first snow of the year. Not a blizzard by any stretch of the imagination, but a clear reminder that the annual Canadian deep freeze has begun again.

…Bears may be the number one threat to America…

Now is the time of frosty rituals and rememberances of warmer times. The liner goes into my coat, sweaters come out of storage, my wife starts making threatening sounds while waving gloves at me.

It is at times such as these that one wishes that humans had followed the evolutionary path of our ursoid brothers. What a joy to sleep, warm and safe in bear-like bliss while the wind howls outside. No shovel needed to clear the driveway. No driving on icy roads with morons in SUVs. Just sweet slumber; dreaming dreams of salmon and picnic baskets. Bears may be the number one threat to America according to Stephen Colbert, but they sure know how to handle winter.

Snow on Maple Leaf

Filed under: Photography - Ric @ 10:28 am

 

Snow on Maple Leaf
Snow on Maple Leaf

 


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