Bleak (?) mid-winter. Some of the most beautiful sky pictures can be seen this time of the year.

Tower Garden harvest.  This is our harvest for our salad December 27.  Yes, that is a tomato, vine-ripened, with the lettuce, kale, arugula and cilantro that went into the daily salad.  It is not so remarkable in warmer latitudes, but this is Minnesota! It's a very first time in my over 70 years!

found object.

Christmas sunset. The days are getting longer, not enough for you to notice four days past the solstice here at 45 degrees north latitude, however we know they are longer. If we lived in Scandinavia or Alaska four days from solstice might already be an appreciably longer day.

Winter! This picture shows the cold of our season here in Minnesota. Snowbirds who live these moments in some warmer climate miss out.

Winter sky. Some interesting and beautiful colors of the December sky are kind of elusive.

December harvest! Do those words go together in the winter wonderland where we can get more than a foot of snow in a 36 hour time period?  Well, it's a first for me but it's work I enjoy and adds to better health. This was from my Tower Garden yesterday and went into our meal.

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