Spring-like winter

I am home from Goderich where I spent the last two weeks with my parents. My father had a small stoke and I had to be sure he was OK, and my mother able to manage his care. He is OK enough, and she is more than able.

I returned to a very cold but only snow-dusted Cape Breton. Yesterday the North River was a sheet of glass, water running below -- and the river bottom itself -- eerily visible. The ice had just become thick enough for skating. The picture above, taken by Mary Ann Wilson, is of Carol Kennedy making her magic on her skates. Carol lives on the Murray Road overlooking North River. Today it's raining and it is to pour with wind-driven rain before the day is over. So goes the ice, and this exceptional January continues.