Minus -16 C most of the day, although it did not seem bad when

I went out with the camera at lunch it was brutal on the walk home

probably more of a breeze.  It was a day of mostly cloud and the

occasional sun and lots of blue shadow.  I saw one magpie and one

rabbit. Today I am not sure I share Edwin Way Teale's view.

"Yet, paradoxically, in its own way, winter is a time of superlative life. Frosty air sets our blood to racing. The nip of the wind quickens our step. Creatures abroad in this season of the year live intensely, stimulated by cold, using all their powers, all their capacities, to survive. Gone is the languor of August heat waves. Winter provides the testing months, the time for fortitude and courage."

                                                    Wandering through Winter

                                                              Edwin Way Teale 

                  

                                                                                                    

I might see an outcome more in agreement with Linda Pastan's view.

                       "We must learn the cold lessons

                       The dinosaurs learned

                       to freeze magnified

                          in someone else's history:

                             to leave our bones behind."

                   

                                                    Ice Age

                                                        Linda Pastan