Cold December Afternoons

The sun goes down early these brisk days. Actually, it never really gets up very high in the skies all day long. Not high enough to peek over the tall trees on our property anyway. I corral the ducks back to their pen at 4:00 so I can best the raccoons out of a dinner of duck. On the rare day like yesterday that the skies are clear, the sun shines orange through the trees and coldness. It is very pretty. Way more than this photo lets on.