Luminous Clouds As the final piece in

As the final piece in this year’s series of minis

Cool cascades along the Middle Prong River in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park contrast beautifully with peak fall foliage

but one of my favorite television ad campaigns of all time was the classic Southwest Airlines "Wanna get away

and I didn't have to make any compositional changes

and yellows during a winter morning

Luminous Clouds As the final piece inI love winter. I guess it's because I grew up in southern Wisconsin, a place where the short days of December bring nightfall by about 4: 15 in the afternoon. A place where the first week of January is often notoriously cold, sometimes with many days in a row when the daytime never crests zero degrees Fahrenheit. But it's such a clarifying season. A time to rest, recharge, and see the natural world stripped down to its barest essentials. I caught this