Imagine you are a tiny insect, something like that fly on the wall you’ve always wanted to be. Then start flying around in the Assiniboine Conservatory, after you have seen enough of that juicy situation you had imagined. You will end up in the Manitoba Orchid Society’s annual orchid show.

Instead of becoming your old self again, still chuckling over that juicy situation you just witnessed on the wall, you remain in fly-form. And here is what you see at the orchid show. For a fly, even if these plants are harmless, they all look as if they want your wings! As well as some other parts of your anatomy…

Manitoba is a cold place in winter. It’s not for nothing they say “cold as a Winnipeg winter”. You would expect everything to be gone or asleep during this period and only us humans running around looking busy.

If you look around in the right places, you may also find animals, doing the same thing. Times are hard in winter, and food is scarce. At least if nobody puts something outside for each to enjoy. So let’s take a look at what we can find during winter inside the Winnipeg Perimeter Highway…

Getting some fresh air here in Manitoba is not so difficult. You just have to stick your nose outside and you’re done. Even more so in wintertime, you just need to make sure that you get your nose back without frostbite.

Nah, it’s not that bad. For a few days/weeks during winter it is very cold. For the rest of the time, it’s a normal winter with temperatures in a comfortable –5 to –15C zone. But what is the best of winter in Manitoba? The fact that on each walk you take, you

A surprise, whenever you go there and however many times you have been there already. Also, surprising is the ease with which you can go inside Manitoba’s government building with a camera, bag and tripod.

No questions asked about the tripod, you just walk in. I guess that every photographer will be so much in awe inside the building that he will completely be protective about everything he sees.