The view this morning from the dashboard, while I was out running a couple of errands.

A bit of haze just accentuated the sunrise this morning.

Yesterday was a good, busy day. I ran early errands and enjoyed, as always, the view coming over the divide into the valley. Today? It’s back to work.

She’s waiting somewhat patiently for me to put on my boots for a walk.

Out walking between winter storms.

Today we go back to work and school after a long winter’s holiday. I’m not particularly ready, but am resolved to work on some elements of focus and persistence to keep myself and my team getting done what needs doing.

It’s the final slow morning of this long winter’s holiday. I’m warming up the coffee machine and writing down some notes from the last day and day ahead. Tomorrow, this slow calm is replaced by going back to work.

It was a pretty chilly morning here (that temp in Fahrenheit)! And we don’t look likely to reach that forecast high, either.

And just like that, it’s another day.

It’s a quiet and bitter cold first morning of the year for me. I took the dog outside in the zero degrees F dark, and then she went right back to her warm bed. I’m ready for my second cup of coffee while the first tiny bit of dawn is starting to differentiate the one-black sky from the mountain. All in all, it’s much like any early morning this winter, albeit far colder after this week’s snowstorms have moved on. A lot of things in the past week have made it hard to feel reflective on the close out of the past year and start of the next. Here’s hoping for resolution of those uncertainties and a chance at some calm, some restoration, and maybe also some joy in 2022.