As soon as the sun begins to get brighter, it always feels good to get moving outside, even if it's still cold, though this week has been unseasonably warm. Today, there were signs of life as the birds sang and the squirrels chattered, and a few hardy plants showed their leaves.
Read MoreIn praise of winter nights
With winter days short, although lengthening at last, it is easy to lament the loss of longer, warmer summer days, and yet, each day as I am about to curse the dying of the light, I look to the sky and see such scenes of beauty that it is hard to deny the magnificence of winter.
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