A strange thing happened last week as I was driving home from work. I looked around me and noticed a warm glow. It took awhile to register what it was... and then I realized - it was the sun.
Winnipeg is known for it's frosty but sunny winters, however the past 2 years have seen a reversal. Mild but cloudy winters. Add to that the fact that the sun will set just after 4:00 on the shortest day of the year and you can see that the sun is a rare commodity for us Winnipeggers at the moment. 
At the end of January we now have sun until after 5:00. I took these photos in front of my house on that sunny day.
To be honest, I don't like winter at all. I try to ignore it. I go to work, busy myself with a million and one things so I don't have to actually realize that I live in a deep freeze for 4 months of the year.
The other day after a spell of -40degrees Celsius, I stepped out into a -15 afternoon...and felt a warm breeze. True story.
If I had it my way, I'd opt for some climate change on a personal level. A little space by a warm sea with my Jack and my Jeremy (cat).
posted by Lisa Vogt @ 12:10 PM
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Thanks for wanting to take me too!
I happen to share your lack of love for the prairie winter. I sometimes wonder how I can feel equally stunned and uncomfortable with the cold each year when I have lived here (almost) my entire life. In the moments where I think I just can't live here any longer...as cliche as it is...I try to enjoy a few simple things of winter like steamy hot chocolate, buying fun scarves and hats, and complaining/boasting about our survival in this deep freeze to my foreign friends who simply cannot grasp how cold it really does get here.
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