Ice fog

Glancing out my front window today required a double take. The top of the island appeared to have been chopped right off! The layer of ice fog hung just below tree top level giving the effect of having given the island a brush cut.


I had to chuckle at God’s real version of a Photoshop technique!

First Ski

Finally, I was able to get out for my first cross country ski of the season! I could not have ordered up a more perfect day: clear sky, bright sun, -7 C air, a fresh, fluffy dusting of snow on the well-groomed trail. The route which normally would take about 45 minutes took 2 hours! Every few strides I would have to stop, take in the magical surroundings and capture some of the scene with my camera. Lindor, my faithful chocolate lab/ski partner patiently gnawed on a piece of tree or darted in and out of the bush during the delays. It was absolutely, breathtakingly beautiful.
More pictures to follow…

Fresh stuff

A light dusting of snow fell overnight. The flakes were big and fluffy. It amazes me how the flakes hold on to each other. Don’t you find fascinating the triangles formed on the windows of my vehicle?

Fluffy flakes close up

Golden frost

I can’t resist capturing frost on my windows in winter. Unfortunately, the most intriguing section was on the screened portion of my sewing room window thus the grid which appears in the foreground. The light source is the yard light behind my house.

Reason for the Season

Christ Jesus:
6Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
7but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus
8And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
he will save his people from their sins.” Matthew 1:21
9Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2