Envisioning a Web of Light

Today was gray--a raw, damp, winter day. The solid stripes of snow slathered on the
north sides of all the trees we saw along the roads we drove,
had not yet melted or been blown off the bark by the wind. The dirty
but otherwise undisturbed snow-cover gave the landscape a formidable
look, reduced to a blatant, cold contrast of black and white. It was a
day bereft of color and warmth. Snow and ice-sheathed and chilly,
without a trace of color to behold in sky or forest, without the
generous wafting scents or caressing breezes of spring.

Old Man Winter really is a stingy curmudgeon! I had to close my eyes to
find an image that was warm and inviting, and I remembered summer days
spent dangling ankles in river water and staring into endless reams of
light thrown upon the lake by the nurturing sun. I came home and had to
upload this image, to remind us all that warmer, more gentle and
affirming days are on their way....

Impressionistic images like this are among my favorites. I could spend hours or days filling
my "cup of beauty" with the shimmering patterns of sunlight on water
and the pebbles underneath.