Winter Solstice Walk

You couldn’t ask for a better day to celebrate the winter solstice: sun, a bright blue sky, and hoarfrost (thanks to last night’s heavy fog). Despite the breeze and the relatively warm temperature, the frost took a long time to melt–usually it only sticks around when the thermometer reading is somewhere south of minus 20, but that’s not the case today.

We walked the usual route, but we went around the lake clockwise, rather than counter-clockwise–not a huge change but enough to make things a little more interesting.

I thought the snowman’s nose was a carrot, but it’s actually a crushed Tim Horton’s cup.

A stop for coffee, and then home: another 12 kilometres. What a great way to spend part of the afternoon!