On a winter’s day.
Well, two days, actually, but let’s take some poetic license here, shall we?
Snowfall, Bayshore Park
Field behind the old Nooyen Farm
The Sisters’ Orchard
The Sisters’ Field
Dusk in front of Holy Cross Church
Corner of Church and Bay Settlement Roads
And the sky is gray.
I forget that the transition from autumn to winter here can be miserable: wet gray and cold. Today was all of that and more. Wind and rain gradually changed to snow and a road near my house has just been closed due to glare ice.
These shots are from Bayshore Park this afternoon. I love walking here in the fall. The smell of wood smoke hangs in the air mixed with the clean wet smell of leaves underfoot and I have seen cedar trees dense with cedar waxwings doing their best to strip the berries from the trees.
Come winter, it is the absolutely best place to snowshoe. The campground is closed and if you don’t mind breaking your own trails, you can wander large untouched stretches of brilliant white snow at will.
Late fall/early winter, however? The park is not fit for man nor beast.
But…photographers, maybe.
Some reflections from Bayshore:
