Polar bears of the weather

Yes we've had a polar blast and it's meant fires and hot toddies and nice big stews and casseroles. We tasted a very nice 18% alc. boysenberry wine today. I kept thinking how nice it would have been if warmed up.
There has been a fair amount of snow thrown about up here and we drove to Mt Grey and Lake Janet to get a better look. Lake Janet was just begging to be photographed but boy it was tricky to get the right exposure. Low light meant tripod but you can see why I had to endure the cold to get the pic.
Off to French Farm tomorrow and if the weather holds we hope to walk up to Pulpit Rock. A really cool volcanic dome on Banks Peninsula. Camera goes too. Expect mud and more mud and if it aint snowy, Rog will run up.