Hope

The rowboat in a snow squall waiting for warmer weather.  Or…

Watching the snow fall, hoping enough will accumulate so we can go cross-country skiing.

Altered version (post-processed in Photoshop and Picnik).

This week’s WordPress photo challenge is Hope.

It snowed for most of the day, but the ground is too warm and wet.  Most of it has melted already.  As of this writing, in the late afternoon, the sun is shining and the sky is a gorgeous shade of blue with the occasional fluffy white cloud floating by.

Three trees reflected between the ice sheets on the pond.

The surface of the pond is beginning to freeze again, from the outside in.   I stopped to admire the reflections in the water in between the ice while on my walk this morning.

Warming up by the fire after a morning walk in the snow storm.

That’s it from the Bogs on this snowy January day.  It’s been a nice, quiet Saturday.  Relaxing.  It’s nice not to have anywhere to go or anything in particular to do.  Let’s just have a seat by the fire, sip on a warm beverage, and be grateful we’re indoors.  The temperature is dropping, the wind is gusting, and it will be pretty cold out there tonight.

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