In the woods just off the Ottawa River in Orleans (just under 2km from home, as the crow flies) some anonymous souls take to ornamenting the trees every winter with a few balls and baubles here and there. It’s not much, but it’s a nice gesture and adds some much-needed colour to an otherwise bleak landscape, especially when there’s as little snow as there is this year.

Thankfully, the pandemic didn’t keep the anonymous ornamenters away in 2020.