First Snow!

Driving in south-western Ontario last weekend, we encountered our first snow of the winter.

If there's snow on the ground in Ottawa when we get back, this will a game changer! Fewer adventures! More time indoors!

The following day - December 1 - our son sent us photos of snow falling in our yard...

Eventually there was quite a bit! It looks as if winter has really arrived.

Joy in ...Colour!

I'm currently going through the photos stored on my cell phone - deleting a lot of them ... because I just have too many!

But when I came across this picture from an Instagram post, I stopped ...

I probably shared it on my blog before. I agree with what it says. BUT the COLOURS of these granny squares fill me with such energizing joy... I could just bask in it!

I wonder what research says about the POWER of COLOUR!

Remembering...

I recently came across a group of photos taken a while back. For historical context, our kids were all teenagers at the time, Terry and I were 10 years away from retiring, and my mother had not yet moved from Kelowna to Ottawa. She decided to do that three or four years later.

Terry was a regular at an annual charity auction - and would bring home tickets for various events in the city. (Always a surprise!) Several times he got tickets for this river cruise here in Ottawa. We enjoyed being "tourists" in our own city.

It's unusual for us to have photos of the Rideau Falls on the Ottawa River from this angle...

Or the Chateau Laurier Hotel.- next to the Parliament buildings on the right, hidden by trees.

It's a surprise to see how much younger we looked then! (Just as it's a surprise nowadays to look in the mirror and see white hair and wrinkles! When did that happen?!)

Good times!