Happy Friday!

In the distance, two friends were running about, enjoying the snow and sunset. Enjoy your weekend!

Winding down

Ending the day in pastel. Looks like a cross country skier had fun here.

Winter morning

Back from (work) travels and the polar vortex is loosening its grip, yay! Even the geese are flying again (specks in 1st photo). A cross country skier (2nd photo) enjoyed the sunrise with me.

This month many years ago

"This is hallowed ground. Across these fields in the early light of the third of January 1777, Washington's Continentals defeated British regulars for the first time in the long struggle for American independence." Portico and sign by the tomb of unknown American and British soldiers, Princeton Battlefield. Unplowed snow blocked my path to the battlefield, but I found these January 2013 snaps. (More battlefield here and here.)

I'm taking a break next week. Enjoy your weekend, see you soon!

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P.S. Below, Friday AM forecast is -20C/-8F (thanks to Jack for the Fahrenheit reminder) - far colder than Alaska's 2-3C. No wonder my camera's protesting.

Postcard from England: Some sunlight

Despite English storms (hail and all), we got some sunlight in Sutton Coldfield. The area was once Henry VIII's hunting grounds and he favored the town with a royal charter. In 2nd photo, Jeeves loved the sun too!

Postcard from Washington, DC: Deck the halls

To end my work travels, sunset glow at the capitol and GIANT wreath in the halls outside Union Station.

Man in moon

Taken the night before I left for work travel. I kind of see a face, a melted-snowman-face. Perhaps it's that elusive man in the moon.

The day closes

Looking skyward near the woodsy, southwest end of town, a lovely way to close the day.

End of day stroll

Under sunset skies, south of downtown (helps clear the head). Enjoy your weekend! More at Ein Stück Himmel.

Good night

The day ends at the Institute Pond. That red flag means no ice skating. Just visible in the dying light are Canadian geese round the pond, not pleased by my presence.:) Enjoy your weekend! More at Ein Stück Himmel.

Peaceful, snow-hushed mornings

Though we're expecting a 'Hide your wife, hide your children' storm! Have a safe weekend. See more skies at Ein Stück Himmel.

Sunrise

Saturday and wintry at last. Snowy morning fields always evoke this lovely poem for me, by Czeslaw Milosz:

Encounter 
We were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn.
A red wing rose in the darkness. 

And suddenly a hare ran across the road. 

One of us pointed to it with his hand. 

That was long ago. Today neither of them is alive, 

Not the hare, nor the man who made the gesture. 

O my love, where are they, where are they going 

The flash of a hand, streak of movement, rustle of pebbles. 

I ask not out of sorrow, but in wonder. 

--Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania), 1936 

Czeslaw Milosz, from "The Collected Poems 1931-1987" (The Ecco Press, 1988)

Postcard from Hawaii: Goodnight {+ Princeton good morning}

One last Honolulu sunset from last week...

And Princeton yesterday morning (that tree fell in the storm). Hope to share a more recovered Princeton soon. Enjoy your weekend!

Evening scene

On my way to a late dinner, there was still soft light in the sky. Long summer days are such a treat.