This is the sight that greeted us New Year’s Day morning in our backyard, south of Seattle WA.

No wind creates a beautiful snow scene

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Saltwater Park is in Washington State, a bit south of Seattle. I’m in a sky view mood lately.

View of Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest on a cool and calm winter day.

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Driving into Seattle this afternoon from the north, the city and sky was bathed in beautiful sunset light.

Seattle sports arenas and harbor cranes at sunset on New Year’s Day

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Happy New Year, dear readers! May 2017 bring us all peace, joy, health and abundance.

Puffy clouds reflected on a calm Puget Sound, in Washington near Seattle

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Winter has its beauty.

The sun tries to appear in this late December sky

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The light returns! Happy Solstice to my dear readers.

The sun’s light returns at the Solstice, and we rejoice.

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I was at my brother’s house in Connecticut. He has a wonderful view of the western sky from his upper window.

Bare tree branches against a sunset sky

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Last spring I was in Longwood Gardens outside of Philadelphia. Enjoy the light, as we are in our gray weather now, here in Seattle.

Huge old white dogwood tree in Longwood Gardens, PA

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It hasn’t snowed this year yet, but I thought I’d post this scene of my back yard from a few years back, before a house was built beyond the fence. Scenic to the max!

Snow on evergreens in the Pacific Northwest

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Seattle is booming, and this view from the south shows some of the changes.

Waterfront shipping containers, cranes, and what will be the tunnel entrance, against a dramatic dark sky

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