From Rye Field

I fully realize it's the middle of December, but I feel optimistic about the prospects of spring, am fully confident of its arrival (with due respect to the January, February and March to come), and look forward to spending time again in Hawley. Feeling that sense of spring (certainly not in this morning's frigid air) I thought this captured the mood:

Every now and then I like to lean out my window,

look up and smile for a satellite picture.

-- Steven Wright