Cold Spell

For the past month the temperatures have been consistently lower than we have become used to.  At night the temps dip below -40C and we are excited if they rise above -25C during the day (and we all rush to put winter gear on and soak up the daylight and warmth while we can).  I keep thinking that the cold snap can't last much longer... but it has been more than two weeks of telling myself that and there is no 'warm' spell on the horizon.

I had fallen in love with northern Ontario winters.  The crisp air is refreshing.  The snow is light and fluffy (like feathers, but cold).  Although the shortest days in December and January are often hard to deal with (long shadows at noon depress me), the longest days in June more than make up for it.  There are always a few weeks that are this cold, but they are balanced by several weeks of beautiful crisp postcard winter weather.  And   the snow never turns grey from pollution.

This winter is testing my love and going to be hard on the wallet when the hydro bill arrives.