Category: Winter

Arrowhead

Toronto, Antarctica

Bernina Railway

Mother Nature’s graffiti

After a blizzard, the snow stuck to the windward side of the trees in this interesting pyramidal shape

When the snow turns the forest into a cathedral

During an unusually cold and snowy winter in Vancouver, BC. You don’t see this every year!

Ice jam on the Humber River at Old Mill

When else can you travel to the high arctic without leaving the comfort of your own city? The ice jam broke up later in the day: https://twitter.com/StormhunterTWN/status/1494419084649324545

Pancake ice on Lake Ontario

Seen at the mouth of Etobicoke Creek as it flows into Lake Ontario. The pancakes form as chunks of ice spin slowly in the current until they are…

Fire and Ice

Into dreams

Rime ice on trees

Parry Sound sunset

I visited Devil’s Rock on Lake Timiskaming over two consecutive days. It couldn’t have been more different.

As the ice melted, it formed these super cool patterns on the lake. This is because Lake Timiskaming is not an actual lake but a wide section of…

Slumbering Superior

A day with complete calm on Lake Superior? It’s like winning the lottery!

Snowy Toronto and cool ice patterns on Lake Ontario

Ice coral at night

At Humber Bay Park, the icy spray of the lake freezes on the branches to create these magnificent crystalline structures that are reminiscent of coral. Daytime version here.

Icy Lake Erie at Long Point

Lake Erie has been struggling with rapid shoreline erosion caused by high water levels. When I came back to this spot a year or two later, the house…

The Blue Mountains

Stratocumulus clouds on Cypress Mountain in Vancouver

Snowy backroad at twilight

Sleepy snowy small-town Ontario

Lindsay, Lake Scugog, and Port Perry

Ice coral at sunrise

At Humber Bay Park, the icy spray of the lake freezes on the branches to create these magnificent crystalline structures that are reminiscent of coral. Nighttime version here.

Steam fog at the mouth of the Humber River in -20 °C weather

Dazzling display of diamond dust

A lower sun pillar, or subsun, is formed when sunlight reflects off tiny hexagonal ice crystals. It extends vertically below the real sun. At first, the subsun appeared…

“Proposal Point. Experts Only”

Expect unmarked cliffs, rocks, and other hazards

Whistler, BC, Mars