It’s that time of year. You know, when the Christmas lights are removed from houses and the decorations are stowed away. Everything is dark and bare.

For those who live in snow country, the landscape will be blanketed white, then gray. Trees will have lost their leaves with only the evergreens offering any hope of color.

After the bright lights and decorations starting with Fall and ending with the Epiphany (aka the Twelfth Day of Christmas), it seems that everything is darker. Even my headlamp doesn’t seem as bright.

And yet, we’ve passed the winter solstice so the sun is rising earlier.

Just not early enough to chase away the gloom.

It might be time to start buying Valentine’s Day lights to decorate the house and make a stand against the winter blahs.

Or I could just stay inside and watch Netflix:)

Until next time.