Spring Light

We are skiing here at The Domain of Killien in Haliburton and already the light has a spring hue and lift. The road we crossed yesterday to access the trail was a coursing river.

After the stifling heat of Cancun, after climbing pyramid steps and stumbling through a jungle, how strange, how home it feels to be skiing again -- to feel the crunch of snow, because at end of January when we left for Mexico, we had only a dusting. Where did the winter go?

It was the spring light on translucent birch bark that caught my eye today.