As I set off for my fourth winter trip to the Prairies, in December 2017, things didn’t look good in terms of snow levels.  If you look at that Snow Depth map from the day before I left, the brown area in eastern Alberta and western Saskatchewan with no snow was exactly where I was going.  I had done a similar trip in December 2016 when there was also very little snow in Saskatchewan, and a bit more in eastern Alberta.  Well, there is nothing I can do about it, I thought.  I’ll just have to make the best of what is there.  I dream about heavy snow and wonderful minimalist images, but sometimes you get just a few centimetres and, still, I think there are interesting images to be made.