A Tag and a Winter Walk

 Hi everyone. Happy Thursday.

Today I'll start my post with a tag for Tag Tuesday. This latest challenge is hosted by Sandie, and her theme is King, Queen or Both.  This is a fun challenge Sandie. Here's my tag.

I stamped my tag with this Renaissance style background image, and then inked my tag with blue and grey ink.  I also stamped the red heart bullseye. I added 2 types of gold washi tape that I stacked, and then I added the Red Queen die cut.  She isn't anything I stamped or cut but came in an Alice In Wonderland image set. Finally I stamped the  quote, which stamped as one quote but I split it into 2 pieces. 

Last Saturday it was cold, but my husband and I bundled up, put the dogs in the truck, and went up to my MIL's home on the lake. It's about 30 minutes north of us.

She doesn't live there for the winter (she's at my SIL house in Maine); and the house is closed up with no power, no water and no heat. That also means it's not plowed. We had to find a space to park along the narrowly plowed road her property is on, and then we hiked in. We've had snow but also lots of sleet, which made the top of the snow crusty enough to walk on.

I am standing in the road when I took this first photo. And we've walked in a bit of the way in this next photo. I've turned back to photograph where we had walked already.

I used my cross country ski poles just in case it was deep or slippery.

And in this window reflection you can see I am wearing what I call my Arctic coat, maybe not quite warm enough for the Arctic but warm to -35 degrees F (-37 degrees C).

In this next photo you can see Mr. Pete down at the lake front. He discovered the lake was  frozen over, and he was thrilled to discovered he could go running across it and not get wet. He had that look of pure  joy on his face as he ran like the dickens this way and that.

I have no photos of Miss Maddie since she was out trying to see if her friend's (my MIL's neighbors) were around to visit, but no, it was predictably quiet.

This  garden decoration of my MIL's was left out . It's colors have some sharp contrast against the white snow, and makes a cool shadow too. I hope my MIL wasn't too fond of it as it's looks like winter got to it a little bit.

And finally, a couple of pretty snow scenes.

I really enjoyed this walk, even if it was cold with a wind making it feel even colder. As I hadn't done any walking except around a few stores (grocery store, Home Depot), it was some much needed outdoor time.

Hope your week is going well, and thanks for visiting.