…and minus thirteen by dinner. The interim between the holidays brought several noticeable moodswings in the weather, with Christmas Day bright and shiny…

…and Christmas dinner [with Patsy, Jon and the obligatory skype to Brooklyn] fun and festive, but snowing by the next morning.

With even more threatening weather threatening we took ourselves ALL the way to town [Gardner, then Walsenburg] while the sun shone Saturday…

Had sun on Sunday as well;

Then as advertised in comes extreme cold and constant drizzling snow both Monday and Tuesday, minus twelve when I went up to the gate to meet Teresa, our heroic UPS driver, at 5:40 and double digits as aforementioned by night, not reaching out of the teens either day…

Tuesday it was also cold enough [see above] to freeze a dog’s outdoor doing as it hit the ground; we never went out and the snow trickled down all the day…

Wednesday, New Year’s Eve day and Eve, though some might peg the beginning more around Leon’s Solstice party ten days ago [this thing about waiting to make sure the sun is REALLY going to make it back seems sort of northern European Christian paranoia to me], was bright and blue, all the day long, t-shirt weather in the studio…

…right to the end, and the last of the light…

…followed by scallops with couscous in goat butter, brussels sprouts, then cava and pizzelles by the fire until New Year’s had come to New York, anyway.

 

So a Happy New Year, whenever it was, and wherever it found you…

 

M