Winter Solstice and Summer Dreams

I’m not a winter person. But this year, (so far) I’ve done better than many winters before. (I count anything after Halloween as proverbial, if not literal, ‘winter’.) My mood has been helped in large part because I’ve gotten out regularly to hike and imbibe nature in spite of the seasonal gloom.

Still, I’m finishing the year with a some kind of cold or contagion and with the winter solstice now behind us and the days getting ever so slightly longer again, I find myself dreaming of summer.

With that thought in mind, I leave the year with a blast from a summer past.