Winter takes one last shot

Blanket in the valley
London, ON
March 2023
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Winter decided she wasn’t quite done with us yet. So it felt entirely appropriate to wander over to the valley and watch it get painted white one last time before the final melt.

Social media might have exploded with coast-to-coast-to-coast complaining, but this is one of those unique facets of Canadian life that defines who we are.

The experience - a short, sharp storm that just as quickly turned to sunshine - served as a reminder that Planet Earth is, still and always, a tempestuous, unpredictable, even dangerous place. But she’s also beautiful, resonant, and breathtaking.

This was, and is, just as true on every coast as it was, and is, in this small wooded valley close to home.

Soon enough all this will change again, from white to green. And some folks will still find it in them to complain. But not me.

I’ll be the guy wandering back to this place so I can have my breath taken away yet again.

May it never get old.

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