This afternoon. Bear and I walked the loop. And it was beautiful. It was nearly 5:00 p.m. and I hoped to see the moon rise…
…missed it on the walk but as I worked into the evening, it appeared out the window, lighting a few clouds…
…and casting its light over the icy driveway.
It continues to keep me company as I work a bit later tonight. Deadline to meet. Monday.
I love the woods in fog.
Last night, a wintry mix of rain/sleet/snow left an inch of new slush. As the sun rose and started warming things up…fog.
I also love a beardog in the woods in fog.
A long work day later, Bear and I took a quick trip to town. The sun had been out a few times during the day and as the sun set through heavy clouds to the southwest, it lit clearing skies to the north and northeast.
The ski runs of Big Mountain. The lights on the runs open for night skiing.
Beautiful to see the lights and they always trigger such wonderful memories. I was fortunate to have several night skiing experiences with incredible light: “fairy dust” from the lights on freezing fog, a night when the full moon rose as the sun set in a clear sky…Flathead Valley and Lake below, skiing alone on the lighted runs on perfect snow in the quiet night when even the lifties spoke in near whispers. Magic nights of incredible light and incredible skiing.
The mountains, an old cabin, a farm pond.
Day of incredible light.
At my house, it was gray and heavily overcast as I got Bear out the door, gathered my purse, put on my coat and boots…thought about gloves…
I almost didn’t take my camera.
Sunday evening, just after sunset…the pinkish light appeared in the clouds for a very short time…a very brief bit cloud alpenglo.
So…we’ve been under either a Winter Storm Warning, Winter Storm Watch or Winter Weather Advisory since Saturday. So far a lot of bluster, a few squalls, a few flurries.
I took Bear to Wayfarer’s at lunchtime.
Not really a “picnic by the lake” kind of day…
It was as cold as it looks…not so much the temperature, but the wind.
Even blowing from the south-southwest, it was not a warm wind. But it was strong and from that direction, it certainly riled up the lake at the Wayfarer’s end.
The heavy snow has reportedly started in the Idaho panhandle and western-most Montana. NOAA reports that some areas are getting a foot of snow in a hurry and some areas nothing. Huh. At one point they forecast 4 to 8 to 12 inches in Flathead Valley.
We’ll see.
This evening, as I write this, the wind is howling and it is snowing heavily… :)!
Fire crackling in the woodstove. Bob and Bear and I are cozy inside. It is mid-January – barely a month into Winter. Let it snow!
