A Winter's Blue Sunset

We were supposed to get some snow flurries on Saturday, but the flurries turned into more than was expected: we had a total of four to five inches of new snow by Sunday morning.

We were expected at some friends' house on Sunday afternoon, and so we shoveled the drive way in the morning. A light, fluffy snow, full of sparkles.

It was snowing again as we headed over to our friends' house in early afternoon. First fat, slow flakes; then tiny, sparkly ones, like powdered sugar. It didn't amount to much, but it was pretty and made the day look appropriately wintry.

The skies were starting to clear a bit in late afternoon as we left our friends. There were still snow clouds in the sky, but they tried to move out of the way for the sunset. The sun itself was just a point of gold at the horizon before the coming of the blue winter's night.

P.S. A song to accompany this wintry scene: Gordon Lightfoot's Song for a Winter's Night. The lamp is burnin' low upon my tabletop. The snow is softly falling . . .

P.P.S. The companion blip to this one? Bookends to a winter's day: a pale blue and yellow sunrise, accompanied by another Gordon Lightfoot song, and this blue sunset . . .