-27 Degrees

-27 degrees winter, Mike & I took a crazy route to the wild and extreme by touring along Volga river which was estimated to be less than –30 degrees. The wind was harsh and blustery with an alliance of frosty, frigid winter.

Isolating from the hectic, mundane life of studying and doing regular things that burdened me down, a long stroll in the midst of this gelid winter is exactly what I need.

I like to feel the bones and structures of it; the loneliness, it’s sinew to a whole new experience of refreshment and enliven. Waking up the lamented piece of slain cerebellum of my brain.

The view was magnificent; no words can utter or describe. Once again amazed by nature’s course and what God can create. Tedious movement of snow; fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables.

When listening to cracking ice, and watching over raging deep Prussian blue sea; makes you wonder how decayed can this world be. As pirouetting snow dies in the ocean; what lies beneath, is just an unfolding story never told waiting for discovery.

It was a hard time shooting pictures in this jarring, raucous weather, tried with a digital camera but the battery died instantaneously leaving me no choices but to use a pathetic 3.2 megapixel phone.

Struggling as I need to reheat and stuff my numbed fingers into pockets after taking every single picture. Mike on the other hand endeavoring it with his DSLR.

-27 degrees and it was all worth it.