I love winter

I love winter. To be specific - I love Toronto's winter. It's one season that everything seems to be crisp clear. You will never find another day with comparable viability and a feeling of freedom. Sky is so blue that it seems to be melting in my eyes.
You might want to complain about the dry and chilly wind, and how it hurts you like a sharp knife. I'd rather call the coldness and wind "awakening". Compared to the steam and heat in the summer, you are no longer drowsy all day long. Instead, you are wide awake. Winter keeps my head clear and mind active to its maximum. What is the best is that I don't need to struggle with annoying sweat any more. I hate to sweat with a passion.

Of course there is always deeper reasonings behind this. This Toronto weather reminds me of home. The home. Taiyuan is an inland city in China, stuck between two major mountains. It hardly rains nor snows, while in the winter wind literally blows you away. It's not some pleasant climate, but it's home. The lack of moisture and harshness of a Toronto winter is exactly like that - and I liked it because it reminded me of home. Although many years after I start to call Toronto home, this feeling of belonging still hovers around.

Enough with the talking. I took a couple of pictures on College street. Pedestrians didn't seem to care. :)



This is the Department of Architecture and Landscape Design (or something like that).
Note - the "cloud" is not real cloud, it is steam coming from a chimney nearby. Made the picture look even better.



Isn't the blueness heart-melting?