Holiday Lights

Happy Solstice!



I took this picture last night about eleven of the moon high in the south (above the tips of the backyard Christmas trees.) The moon rides high in the winter, mirroring the path that the sun will be taking in six months, just dipping briefly below the northern horizon on its daily circuit. Our winter nights are a moon-dance.


This morning, the lights from our tree reflected in the windows against the snow scape outside. We got five-to-six inches of snow from the "big storm"--not quite what we were led to expect. That's okay--it was enough to be good ground-cover without making it necessary to clear the driveway or shovel out pathways.


Ghost lights--the tree lights reflect on the windows, making the snow-covered twigs outside look as if they were glowing with their own holiday lights.




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