HAPPY NEW YEAR

May the God bless with you warmth, love and care during the upcoming year! Even though you are not near me to wish, I am sending the best wishes for a great new year!

Aritha

THE FIRST SNOW OF WINTER

The first snow of the season fell in The Netherlands and it was enough to blanket the landscape for a couple of hours. The first snow of the winter season is always special. The winter showers moved across our little country. It stopped snowing by midnight in most places.

I love to see my solar cat in the snow 🐱

Today, December 21 is the astronomical first day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and the darkest day of the year. The day with the shortest period of daylight and longest night of the year, when the sun is at its lowest daily maximum elevation in the sky.

Vandaag is het echt winter, volgens de kalender. En de kortste dag van het jaar. Qua daglicht dan. Ik heb gezellig kaarsjes aangestoken. En ik toch even naar buiten gegaan. Naar de winkel om een cadeautje voor de verjaardag van mijn vriendin te kopen.

I went upstairs last week to photograph the white frozen roofs. But there was condensed water on the window after the night. I still made a photo and I love to see the sun (left) and the mill (right). And of course the nice blue bottle! The bottle reminds me of David's prayer, once: "You counted my wanderings; place my tears in Your flask. Is it not in Your accounting?"

Ik ging ergens vorige week naar boven om vanuit onze dakkapel de wit bevroren daken te fotograferen. Maar het raam was beslagen. Toch is het zo ook een leuke foto geworden. Het flesje herinnert me aan Davids gebed uit de Bijbel. Over tranen die bewaard worden in een flesje of kruik. 

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