Plenty of Nothing

Ottawa Streetcars Stuck in the Snow, 1942

This is Bank Street at Patterson's Creek Park. The apartment building, Ambassador Court, is still standing. Watch footage.

Snow at Hie Shrine

By Kawase Hasui, 1931.

Snowy Aomori

Aomori Prefecture is one of the snowiest places in the world. Source.

Ottawa Snowshoers

Bytown Museum. Source.

Helen Creighton Snowshoeing, Part 2

[These are Jeffie and Lillian Owen. Creighton is the photographer.]

Nova Scotia Archives. Part One.

Outer Office

Winter in Flanders (1928)

Winter in Flanders (1928) by Valerius De Saedeleer.

Bijin as Meng Zong

From Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety by Harunobu. Mitate.

Large Flakes of Snow

Large Flakes of Snow, by Uemura Shōen. Part of an exhibit at the Yamatane Museum of Art last spring.

Japanese Switzerland

Japanese Switzerland by John Lavery, painted after his visit to Wengen, Switzerland, Christmas 1912. The vertical format of the painting, and the bijin-like posture of the woman, both suggest ukiyo-e. Source.