Winter is often thought of as a time of darkness and there is something to that.  We often have days at a time with little or no direct view of the sun and nights are longer.  Life isn’t as evident.

This calls me to note darkness and share some of its beauty, for absence of color is not absence of beauty.

But the sun has come out in the last day or so and that is to be celebrated too.

I like to shoot the little things.   There are so many of them and their patterns are beyond description.

It is a time for gratitude whether there are clouds in the sky or not, whether it is night or day.

By the tender mercy of our God,
the dawn from on high will break upon us,
to give light to those who sit in darkness
Luke 1:78-79