My first sunset picture of the year--January 8, 2008.

Spring Forward!!!
Or should I say, "sprang forward??" Springed? Sprung?? Who cares? After all, it is after 6 pm and the sun still has not slipped behind that hill.
The sun is moving north too, not long ago the sun was setting further to the left in this picture.
Moving the clock forward is one of my favorite days of the year.

Sunset

This picture looks to the east, which is what I thought was neat about this sunset. The reflection of the sun across the sky was really spectacular on this--much warmer than a few days earlier--January evening.

Misty sunset
this photo doesn't really capture the strange pastel nature of this sunset. There was a lot of mist in the sky this evening, turning all color soft. The hills in the background looked one dimensional, like pictures I've seen made from pasted pieces of paper.
The degree of variation in the same landscape never ceases to amaze me. I often marvel in the fact that the scene will never look exactly the same way again.

January 16--Sunset Below Zero

It is definitely January! When it is this cold and there isn't any wind the stillness is complete. It is very quiet, the only sounds are the snap of trees in the woods and the crunch of the horses walking through the snow. The snow has an icy crust which sounds quite startling when it breaks, particularly after dark when the horses are invisible in the field. I love being outside in this weather. The air is so clear and still that it seems the world is held in a momentary pause, the gap between one breath and the next.