Nose Hill in Winter

Nose Hill Park, one of the largest inner-city provincial parks in Canada and North America, is eleven and a half square kilometers and it is located in the northwest quadrant of Calgary. By noon time, it stopped snowing and the sun climbed up in the low south. After ensuring the curry goat is simmering on the stove, I bundled myself with ski pants, snow boots, goose down coat, neck warmer, tuque and ski mittens, and I was out with my camera, straight to the Nose Hill Park, which is several hundred meters away from our home.

Unlike its summer and autumn sceneries, Nose Hill Park displayed a totally different beauty, pure and peaceful. I wonder where the fifty white tale deer, and porcupines and owls are now. I saw them so often in the summer passing through the trees and bushes.

It is so difficult to walk through the knee-high snow, and I started to sweat in minutes. Frost formed on my eye lashes, but the scene looked prettier with the icy foreground. Soon the camera battery died on me, and I truly wanted to shoot a picture for a black retriever running out of excitement and a couple bundled like two pumpkins hiking to the distance.

Only after I came back, have I found it was minus twenty seven! Good there was no wind at all.