The sun, sailing magnificently through the ocean of blue brightened the atmosphere, sending down the glow of light on the snow covering everything in the ravine and the sights are breathtakingly lovely.
We've also come across many of the ravine regulars, out with their canine companions, who had been disheartened with the extreme cold when day-time temperatures hardly nudged above minus-17 to minus-20 and with a wind, those conditions represented another kind of challenge, to keep sufficiently warm.
The highs we've had lately have enabled us to enjoy our woodland rambles, because minus-6-degrees seems, in comparison to the icier temperatures, almost balmy. And certainly so with sun prevailing and the winds becalmed.
A few days ago we came across a young woman who enjoys the opportunity to run through the woods, and with her go her two miniature Australian shepherds. One of which has the most compelling eyes. Both of whom are high-strung, leery of coming across people or other animals they aren't familiar with, but friendly enough in their own way.
In contrast to Taz, the tiny chihuahua, whom his human companion rescued with the help of the humane society across the Ottawa River, and whom we see on occasion sprinkling his tiny pawprints through the snowy blanketed trails. Today he wore his winter coat despite which as we stopped to talk, it was evident that the cold was impinging on his comfort.
It's that little dog's habit to greet anyone coming across his path with a generous volley of barks. In contrast, Riley, who loves people, barks only at other dogs, not that that is any more attractive as far as civil behaviour is concerned. Taz and Riley have finally become accustomed to one another, but they remain disinterested, each suspicious of the other, reflecting in part the way people often react toward one another.
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