What I’ve been longing to do for some time now is to go out into nature where the only company present is the trees, the animals, the sky and my own self. Life has its way of moving so fast. A part of me feels that 2018 began not too long ago, yet here we are at the end of another year. Especially when I am in school I feel that the clock turns faster. And December always seems to go by in a blur as classes end and finals hit and Christmas arrives bringing a warm, joyful- and quite often hectic- atmosphere with our families and loved ones. So I had to get away. Without too much time to travel far, I found a perfect place to hike fairly close to my home. It’s called Elk Island National Park. It has been many, many years since I’ve been, and for sure I never came in the middle of winter! I arrived as early as I could and began my trek through the snow-covered forest. Almost right away I spotted a family of elk running in the distance. And not long after that I came across two small