The light did a funny thing yesterday afternoon. It was snowing on top of the rain that was on top of the ice. The temperature was going down so fast that everything was freezing where it fell. Freezing AS it fell. I went out without my gloves and found myself jogging to the house to retrieve them ten minutes later. 
The snow fell in a way that made me wonder whether it was falling or just blowing about.
Freezing fast.
Then the gloom swooned with a slow sweep of a hidden lighting board, the little light man sliding the sun dial up, slowly tuning its brightness level from behind the clouds. It was the strangest thing.
After a while this golden half light, highlighting the falling snow, began to disperse, the clouds breaking their hold and as the snow faded the light began channeling upwards. Like a spotlight. A strong spotlight. The light was ascending in the West. Reluctant to loose its hold to the sky.
Then later the moon came creeping up into the clouds in the East and it’s light reflected back upwards like a spotlight as well. Those cold crystals are forming again.
We have a few days of “Bitter” cold ahead.
I hope you have a lovely day.
Your friend on the farmy
celi
p.s. it is ZERO degrees (-17C), and windy. Winter is here methinks.
The Kitchen's Garden 
57 responses to “Snow on Rain on Ice”
Winter is indeed here too, we had similar weather yesterday too but I was determined to take down the outside Christmas decor before it got too cold; my fingers froze after ten minutes too, JT had to peel my gloves off because I couldn’t do it myself! Today the temperatures plummeted and I’m glad I did the decoration removal yesterday! It will get colder and colder until Wednesday. Stay warm.
Our garden looked like your gloom swooned photo yesterday for an hour or so………38C and hail that stripped the leaves off everything in its path. Such a big clean up day today.
Cold beauty. Just keep moving! ( and it is so hard to stay inside!) Arctic blast coming in tomorrow so will be putting coats on palms and telling them to keep those on! We’ve had such wind this year. Molly, never seems to feel it with her thick coat which she sheds into long white fluffy snakes indoors, but I really hate to brush her heavily until Feb ends and usually our cold weather is over. It’s nice to know I can let her out to play and not worry about the cold getting to her…she HAS to get out and run …life indoor sgets dull after a bit
Worst stuff for driving in. Hope you didn’t have to. That sunset, the spike of gold reaching up, it is perfect.