Happy Holidays!

Relaxing with a cuppa mint tea after feasting with family for a couple days. Hope you enjoyed a Happy Christmas with loved ones.  Wishing peace, love, good health and happiness to one and all!

xo

M

P.S. Getting ready to share our Boxing Day Sale! Stay tuned!

Frozen Falls

Upon hearing that Niagara Falls was frozen, we knew we had to go see it!  On Monday the weather was reasonable, considering the outrageous number of extreme cold alerts we have had, so we took the afternoon off, grabbed a load of extra hats and scarves, and hit the road!

The American Falls were the most unique sight!  Frozen mist has formed these amazing pale aqua bulbous mounds.  Apparently this is the second time the American Falls have frozen this year.  It was just stunning!

Not to be left out, the Canadian side still flowed with majestic force, surrounded by frozen forms!  I somehow forgot my spare camera battery and then the one in the camera gave out... of course just as a beaming rainbow appeared.  Luckily had my trusty phone camera.

I don't think I have visited the Falls since the 8th grade, which was aaaaggges ago!  This is my first visit in the Winter and it was such a different scene from what I remembered.  It was a beautiful sight and wasn't swarming with visitors so didn't feel that tourist-trap-vibe I disliked so much in grade 8.  

(View from of Horseshoe Falls with mist rising.)

Loved the ice encrusted trees halfway between the American and Horseshoe Falls.  Couldn't get enough of the subtle colour of the purple-ish sky at dusk with the amazing aqua colour of the ice oozing out of the stone and the snowy, icy whiteness surrounding it all.  I felt like we had traveled to the Ice Age.

(This is what you find at the end of the rainbow!  Haha!)

You should check out the Falls before they melt if you can!  So stunning! Now enough of this frigid weather!  We are ready for a thaw!

Spring is coming!  It's just a day away here at MoonRox!

Tomorrow we are launching the first release of the Spring/Summer Collection!  Hope you will like the new pieces!

"Winter Stations"

This Winter, we have a bit of a treat on the frozen shoreline.  Took a little afternoon break to check out 'Winter Stations' in the beaches.  There are 5 great installations built around the existing lifeguard stations at Kew Beach.  There was an international competition garnering 4 winners as well as a design by Ryerson students.  Each is a warming station to provide shelter from the cold in what has become one of the coldest Winters.  It was supposedly the coldest February on record.  So glad to see the arrival of March.

Turns out the Ryerson entry was the highlight for me!  I am a sucker for colourful things, especially in this palette!  The photos above show the "Snow Cone" by Ryerson Architecture students.  Loved how the interior is so amazingly colourful and how it is not totally evident on the outside.  It was like experiencing stained glass windows in a really beautiful church.  And I ain't religious!

This is the "Driftwood Throne."  It's made of 100% reclaimed lumber and has sheltered seating on each side.  One man sat in the -20 temps reading his book in the sunshine.

This orange sight is called "Sling Swing" with its design based on the Summer deck chair.  Enjoyed watching each swing flail in the Winter gusts of wind.  Of course I had to test it out.

This is the exterior and interior of "Wing Back", based on the wing back chair.  Lots of seating around a real fire would be excellent refuge from the cold.

Down the eastern end of the beach, we came upon "Hot Box" based on traditional ice fishing huts.  Nice simple design that serves its purpose well!

The shoreline has definitely been overtaken by Old Man Winter.  Still a really beautiful sight to see.  Felt like we were on another planet!

Head down to the beaches to check out 'Winter Stations' before they are gone on March 22nd.  It was a great little field trip.  If it's going to be cold, we may as well have interesting things to get us outside to better appreciate Winter!