Thursday, 19 December 2019: our temperature this morning is 2C (windchill -1C), with snow forecast for Saturday and Sunday. Another week, and we will have had winter weather for the last three months – and it is still fall!
This morning, I posted the last nine photos taken on 15 December 2019, when my daughter and I had a great day out together with our cameras. This was our Christmas get-together.
My daughter and I had planned, as usual, to drive to The Saskatoon Farm, south of the city. A good, filling breakfast was our first priority there – great food as always. This was the second of two weekends of their Christmas Market, and what a wonderful feeling it was. So popular with so many people, but everything was spread out, so you didn’t feel crushed by crowds. There were vendors inside and outdoors, in the sheds, the greenhouses and inside the main building, too. All sorts of food items, fresh or frozen, to buy and enjoy later at home – pies, scones, soups, and so on. Chestnuts roasting, and marshmallows browning over the welcome open fires.
Once we were happily fed, and we had done a little shopping and taken a few photos, my daughter suggested going a little further south and then cutting across eastwards and then going north until we were east of the city. This was totally unexpected by me, so it was a lovely surprise. The scenery was pure white (with blue shadows) in every direction, with the occasional old barn or shed.
My daughter was hoping to find a Snowy Owl, just like she did on our last trip together and, once again, she spotted one. Like last time, this one was way out in a white field, but we managed to get a few zoomed-in shots. We also saw a Great Horned Owl, so it was nice to see two different species. Unfortunately, of course, it gets dark so early and I needed to get back to the city and home before darkness fell. No time to drive the backroads searching for more Snowies this time.
Thanks, Rachel, for another lovely day out in the countryside. Always my favourite way to spend a day with my daughter.
