Grey clouds dominate a late January landscape.
I try to be grateful for this season’s muted colours. I’m forced to look more closely to find beauty now and will be more appreciative of the colours of late winter and spring blooms.
Wishing you a good Wednesday. I will be back Thursday.
A tree stands in a mid-January mild spell, awaiting the next blows Winter chooses to fling.
Late on a winter afternoon, wind-driven rain softens and blurs the landscape.
Edited to add: I will take my usual internet fast Wednesday night, so no post then. Wishing you, dear reader, a pleasant Wednesday.
Some folks may describe this image as depicting a gloomy day. To me it was good to be able to take this photo, know the palpable difference between today’s temperature, -1, and last Wednesday’s temperature of -10 with a stiff wind blowing, to have made it another year. It was and is a good day.
Winters’ austere beauty has arrived – perhaps a little early by the calendar, at the right time for the season. Even during a -8 afternoon there is something to admire. Here it was the delicate shadings of grey, green, and off white.
The lowering sky brings a promise of snow, beginning tonight and lasting through Sunday. Forecasts suggest up to 20cm. That’s fine, we will be snug, cooking and baking, foraying out to shovel as we need, keeping the bird feeders full, walking the pups.
On a mostly cloudy afternoon, the sun makes a statement. ‘I am here’.
A field of winter wheat, bordered by cedars.
A field of new winter wheat, bounded by a cedar hedge, adds fresh contrast to the yellows, reds, greys, and browns of late fall.
An overcast, grey, almost gloomy day ended with a pleasant splash of colour, low in the western sky.
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