Still...
We went out for a Night Walk out in our field not twenty minutes ago this New Year's Eve, with friends staying over the night. It was great fun rushing about in the snow and cold with hot chocolate waiting surely in a warm kitchen at the end of it. And so it was. We thrashed and ran and tumbled and screamed aloud at the cold night air and wished the sky would open and swallow us whole into a dark envelope of love. And so it did. Reborn and thrown up back into the wide, snow'd, night, we shuffled back through heavy dark to the house off somewhere to the left and lit from within. How warm and inviting it looked from outside! But not before I threw the camera around some more and tapped the well again.
Happy New Year if it hasn't yet arrived, and welcome to January 2006 if it has!