
Snowshoeing with Stella in Saratoga Swamp a few years ago.

Snowshoeing with Stella in Saratoga Swamp a few years ago.

When I emailed friends in Texas about our first snowfall in Goderich, I included this photo of how such a foreign experience affected me – curled into the fetal position, thumb in mouth. My friends were amused, replying ‘Yeah right.’
They were right.

I took this photo in December 2007, my first winter in Canada after relocating from Texas. We lived in Goderich at the time, which Ontarians will recognize as being in the snow belt. And boy, did it snow that December. There was a week during which Faye and I shovelled the driveway and sidewalk daily, ant not only to have something to do. Sometimes we shovelled twice daily. THAT was quite an introduction to winter, which I so contended I wanted to live in, to experience.