The snow was fresh and even, covering everything in a soft blanket of white. It was pretty nice. But pretty cold, too.
Geese flew along with frost on their backs. Mist rose and drifted away in the light breeze. Joggers trotted along the pathway, their steaming breath condensing and freezing on their collars and hair.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails.
It looked pretty much like I thought it would, ice floes, drifting mist, noisy geese. The ice along the banks hadn’t had a chance to really build up to January levels yet but it was trying pretty hard. The snowfall had stripped all the remaining leaves from the cottonwoods and the bigger trees and left them winter-stark but there were still a few brown and orange ones hanging on the willows.
Didn’t make it. The plow had turned around about a hundred metres from the end of the road and I truly didn’t feel like making the short hike — hey, it was cold out there! — so I turned around, too. That’s when I saw the pheasants.Article contentThere were five of them — four hens and a rooster — and they were on the edge of a field digging in the snow.
But no, there was ice as far as I could see. It was piled up in the bends and water was flowing over it in spots but there were no open runs at all. And I could hear the ice moving, the bergs on the surface grinding against each other as the water jostled them from underneath. It sounded like gravel being poured into a bucket.OK, now what? There wasn’t much point in continuing down the river.
And it was definitely colder. I was out by Chancellor now, nearly to Hussar, and despite the bright sun, the temperature on my dash now read minus-24 C, a drop of another two degrees since I left the city.A horned lark hunts for seeds near Chancellor, Ab., on Tuesday, November 8, 2022.The snow was fresh and even, covering everything in a soft blanket of white. The sky overhead was so blue it was nearly black while along the horizon it was a pale cyan. Low spots held patches of thin mist.
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