A dear friend of mine once wrote: ‘you don’t need a big backyard for sun: a deckchair and a lemon tree, its pockets bulging’. Well, I didn’t even have a lemon tree, but that didn’t stop the sun from warming the kitchen wall all afternoon. I had the house to myself all weekend, and on Sunday I worked in the kitchen, in the sun, next to the heater. Part of me wished I was in the frosty, sparkly dales (it was freezing but bright), but it was good to work on my chapter in calm and quiet.
In the evening I braved the cold and watched the sky blaze tropical, as the streetlights vied with the sunset.
northern lights 
Wow, that’s almost like a desert sunset in some ways. Almost…
Very soon those trees are going to be very much different…..
elsewhere: not quite, i know, but we’ve got to take what we can get.
fifi: really? do you think it will stop being winter?