The wind howled until after midnight yesterday.  I didn't know what to anticipate this morning when it got light.  The deck and the backyard were littered with broken branches.  If I would have gathered them up, I would have had kindling to start a few fires in the wood stove.

The wind polished up the road surface making it good and slippery for the drive in to work today.  The blustery wind created art in the yard, the ditches and the open fields.  Beautiful patterns appeared.

The thermometer read -37C this morning.  Brrrr.  Thank goodness the wind let up overnight.  When I came out of work this evening at 9:15pm, the temperature was -22C.  It felt like a heatwave.  I checked the weather website to see what tomorrow will bring and was surprised to see -7C.  What silly weather but I'll take it since I'm off work.  I'm thinking the skis may come out of hiding.