While traveling from Ottawa to Toronto by bus, I was able to take some digital photos of the clear, sunny landscape still covered with ice-like snow.
I was reading Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring throughout the ride, and I had reached the stage where the Frodo and his companions were also traveling, albeit on foot, towards Rivendell. Their landscape was also cold and icy, and at times the writing described exactly what I was looking at:
The sun was now high, and it shone down through the half-stripped branches of the trees, and lit the clearing with bright patches of light. |