Spring in Winter

Or Winter in Spring.  

We didn't get the Northern lights but we got a thin layer of ice on the canal this morning.  Not enough to trot a duck on like but enough for the surface of the water to be stilled.

3 hours in the hills and 12 kms in our legs with ice on the paths wrapping round the north facing slopes.  The Bize blowing between hedges.  A cold, cold kiss.