hello, monday.

we're home, and all the hustle and bustle is over, but things are not at all back to normal. the kids are here at home all week, we don't have much planned until new years eve, and all of the snow is gone. to be honest, i think the next few days are going to be challenging for me. i'm ready to make a clean sweep of the house-toss that tree out, already!-and spend some quiet time regrouping my thoughts and settling down. i think that will have to wait until next week.

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we spent a couple of days at my brother's house in connecticut, and when we woke up sunday morning, there was an eerily beautiful fog. the light was dull, the air heavy with water, although you couldn't quite say it was raining.

i walked out of the house with my cameras and didn't get far before i was mesmerized by small wondrous things: reflections in puddles on the pavement; leaves and moss frozen under opaque, melting ice; rich tones of rust and curry making their way out from under the snow; droplets of water on all of the branches, glistening in what little bit of sunlight could filter through the cloud cover; gorgeous, wispy patterns made by grasses and sticks protruding from an icy pond.

it was all, simply, beautiful. i'll share some of the photos from that walk here this week, and hopefully be able to form some thoughts about what the end of this year, and the beginning of a new one, mean to me.

for now, i'll just leave you with a hello. hope you all had a wonderful weekend. thanks for reading.
tt