Photos Courtesy of Christopher Cairns
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, Canada – In January, Cairns Media Magazine carried a feature story (Let the Snow Fly! A Winter Farm-Stay) about a cold-weather visit to a Canadian farm. The photos showed one dominant color, snow-white.
Since then, lots more snow fell across Canada. This week, we present photos from the same dairy farm taken after a big snowstorm in late February. The words “deeper”, “higher” and “colder” all spring to mind.
The day following the storm, “we couldn't even open our door,” said one resident of the farmhouse, who complained of “one snowstorm after another”. By then, towering snow-banks dwarfed the barnyard fences and people trying to reach the barn. In places, the piled snow rivaled the height of buildings. Long icicles dangled from rooftops.
Cattle on the farm have shelter, but they, like their human caregivers, needed no calendar to know the season. Near the barns, an assortment of farm machinery almost disappeared, buried under snow-banks until warmer times. A tractor with a big scoop at the front and another towing a snow-blower worked overtime to clear routes through the drifts.
Billowy clouds drifting above nearly matched the hue of thick snow on the ground. Maybe more snowflakes still lurk up there, ready to fall soon.
Once the cows are fed and milked, why not go cross-country skiing?
Can people still reach the barn?
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