Winter sucks, but still...

Strictly temporary
London, ON
February 2020
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Wherever we live, we're almost genetically programmed to complain endlessly about the weather. Canadians, especially, love to gripe about winter.

I get it. The snow gets into our boots and soaks our socks. The wind cuts through our coats and seeps through our front doors and windows. Icy roads and sidewalks make it difficult - or even impossible - to get around. Long nights connected by short days and grey skies don't do our souls any favors.

I was silently whining to myself as I walked the few blocks from my office to the train station the other morning. I had been outside less than 2 minutes, and already I couldn't feel my face. The sky was dark and ominous, and I wondered why I was the only one walking the desolate downtown streets while the rest of the world slept comfortably inside.

Then I saw it, a perfect windswept landscape at my feet, a temporary sliver of snowy perfection that reminded me miracles of weather and physics are all around us.

So despite the time and the cold, I stopped and took the picture.

Because I knew it would probably be gone in seconds.

Because we can find wonder in everything. At any moment. In the most unexpected places.

If only we take the time to look down and drink it in. Before it's too late.

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