The snow was blowing and the weather website said the wind was gusting to 45 kph (28 mph), so we took a turn around the park today. It had been snowing for hours before we got there and no plows had been out so the path was drifted in solidly on many spots.
There was no one at the little playground when we went by. That is the knife edge of a large drift on the right, leading into the middle of the photograph.
The swings are still above the snow but I don't know if someone has been shoveling under them. They weren't there today, in any event.
The wind was whipping across from the right and had blown needles off the pine. I waited for a gust to make it look windier but had to move on to keep warm.
I got snow down my boots, trying to wade through the drifts, in spite of the boots being knee-high. We saw a couple of cross country skiers and a lone woman struggling but determined to go for a walk, as were we.
This was the turning point, where we went forward instead of retracing our steps. We headed into the wind here and as soon as I tried to capture these snow drifts, the camera refused to work. It turns out the batteries had given up but at the time, I thought it was the camera. It was quite a struggle with the wind but mostly trying to walk through knee high drifts. At a few points, we tried walking on the snow banks that had been windswept clear of new snow but they crumbled underfoot and we were back up to our knees again. I'm glad we went but I'm glad to be back inside too.
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