Light on a Short Day

What a great idea from Blip to post light on the shortest day of the year (northern hemisphere).  I recently finished a book from which I copied the quote below about light.
"I was struck by the way the light felt that afternoon.  I have paid a good deal of attention to light, but no one could begin to do it justice.  There was the feeling of a weight of light – pressing the damp out of the grass and pressing the smell of sour old sap out of the boards on the porch floor and burdening even the trees a little as a late snow would do.  It was the kind of light that rests on your shoulders the way a cat lies on your lap.  So familiar."  Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, p. 51