By Agnes Cadieux, Ottawa Citizen, January 5, 2015
Now that the holidays are over, it won’t be long before the city plunges into
the depths of the winter blahs. The gyms eventually thin out as drunken
resolutions of a “healthier me” start to go by the wayside, and people give up
on keeping their cars, boots, and travel bags salt-free. If we’re not hearing it
yet, we will soon be subject to that all-too-familiar grumbling about too much
snow, scraping the windows, or more often, about how cold it is. Well, this is
Ottawa… Yet every year people stand huddled at the bus stops like groups of
slighted blackbirds, or walk hastily from place to place, hunched over and
wearing an expression that could melt a snowman. I say this because I’ve been in
that group of blackbirds, and am guilty of melting my share of snowmen. But
winter doesn’t have to be about treacherous road conditions or salt-stained
pants; especially when Ottawa and the surrounding valley have so much to offer
during the winter months. via
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