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Sun Spots

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Our weather has been very overcast with a lot of rain and drizzle, but sometimes we get little sun breaks that provide an impressive contrast in colour and mood.

The sky, hills and water palette are beautifully offset by the sunlit winter fields.

It’s very wet and the wind can be unpleasant, too, but the wintery greyish-blues and lustrous pewters are gorgeous.

Happy Thursday.

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Winter Lake

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When we left the Caribbean the temperature was about 30C (86F); here at home it’s 5C (41F), which is a rather significant difference but completely to be expected, of course.

A cold-looking Okanagan Lake.

Another big difference is that we’re now next to a lake, not an ocean, but I love how both bodies of water can exert themselves so strongly on our lives and consciousness, even down to their colour changes.

I very much like being close to large bodies of water (I was born next to and lived my early years near the Atlantic); I find them comforting and reassuring, even when they decide to whip up some good storms.

Breaks in the cloud cover allow shafts of sunlight to shine on an opposite bank – a beautiful effect.

I find it interesting that M finds the same sense of comfort and reassurance in the mountains; he was born next to the Rockies. Maybe we all have a sort of “birth set point location” that stays with us all our lives and for which we can unconsciously yearn.

Happy Sunday.