I looked out the window and the light was golden against the trees. It’s not the color you usually see in the middle of winter. I associate that color with autumn and sometimes summer. Maybe it was because of all the rain and what seems to be our nightly inch or two of snow, but the rain in the upper atmosphere turned to gold. I’ve seen that once before.

I didn’t think I’d be be able to catch that light, but I wanted to try. I did get some of the light. A wee bit. It was a short twilight and after just half a dozen shots, suddenly it was full dark.

I should mention that the same color of gold covered the sky in Boston on the same day and the day after, too. It has to do, according to the meteorologist, with high level snow which never hits the ground. It makes a giant reflecting mirror in the sky. The lowering sun turns it and everything around it — clouds, buildings, trees — to gold. I have seen it twice before. Once, late in February on the road home from Connecticut. We had to stop and take pictures which we couldn’t do until we left the highway (nowhere to pull off and the cops get very funky about drivers stopping to take pictures) and then again on the river in November one late afternoon. In that case, though, it was a reflection of the bronze-colored oak leaves still clinging to the trees. It made the ducks look as if they were swimming on a pond of gold. This is why I try to have a camera with me most of the time. Lately I have not been carrying one because we are only going to the hospital and I don’t expect to see much on the way.

Today we had snow, rain, snow, rain and who knows what it’s doing right now? We are on some kind of weather alert for the next couple of day, but I don’t know what weather we are being alerted about. Rain? Snow? Ice? Everything?

Categories: #BlackstoneRiver, #gallery, #Photography, Sunset, Trees, Winter

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