From the M O N

This week's picture does not show exactly where I am today, but conveys the situation well enough.

I took the above shot while I was killing time in Kingston before the stakeholders arrived for their climate change roundtable. It's a view of the Wolfe Island wind turbines from the Tett Centre for Learning and Creativity.

I like the bristly desolation offset by the cheerful gathering of human foot prints on the snow-covered ice.

Where I actually am is the Ste Anne Spa in Grafton, with my sister, awaiting a treatment-filled day of rest and relaxation.

We have already found out the food is very good, the rooms comfortable, the snow deep ....

While we drove around last night looking in vain for this place -- we had to ask for directions -- the snow pelted down around us obsuring the view.

The snow's still out there, but at least no more is falling from the sky.

The place seems heavenly and comes with its own bristle. After our lovely dinner and our tour of the premises, we were warned - seriously warned - about the "working dogs" in the vicinity who protect the local sheep herds from coyotes but who, sadly, cannot tell the difference between spa customers walking to and fro from their cottages and said coyotes.

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