After decades of seeing fake, over-saturated travel photos online, it’s tough to convince anyone when you experience one in your own backyard.

I enjoyed watching the steam’s colorful glow in this morning’s 8° sunrise.

Photograph of a rooftop covered in frost, a single steam pipe sticking up

Staying warm with lots of family at the New Year’s Day party at the farm.

Photograph at night of a white farmhouse covered in snow with glowing warm lights on the porch and windows

45 is being able to regularly drink a pot of black coffee with zero issues but, having one can of coke and a slice of cake at my daughter’s birthday makes my body feel like I’m that much closer to death. The sugar hits differently.

I was delighted when the morning greeted me with beautiful blue skies and newly fallen snow. I’d rather be hiking in it than sitting in this morning meeting.

Photograph of a snow covered yard with raking sunlight and long shadows a large Christmas decoration shaped like a deer is in the top left corner posed like it is eating the snow

I was hanging Christmas lights to add some color to our dark evenings and the sky absolutely showed me up. Those colors aren’t boosted, they were that saturated in real life. I couldn’t help but repeatedly stop working to stare in awe.

Highly saturated sunset sky of deep blue with orange and pink clouds swirling towards the horizon

Morning person vs night person: My wife has done both her strength and aerobic workouts while I’m still in my pj’s watching it snow with the cat asleep on my chest. I did make coffee though!

The cat will now live in her heated bed until spring and just like that, it’s treadmill season for me.

Photograph from inside a house of snow falling outside of the window with a cat’s head silhouetted in the foreground

In the cold of winter,
with tree limbs now bare,
along the dark road,
stands a beast who stares.

A star in his paw
for a tree made of light,
he waves as you pass,
turn home, don’t turn right.

One of my favorite stop lights to get stuck at is because of this view.

Sunset photograph of a greenhouse building and brick smoke stack within trees

50° + smokeless fire pit + s’mores made with dark chocolate and marshmallows as large as your hand

We were greeted with a beautiful sunrise right after exiting our voting place. Hoping that today, Americans rejecting hate and fear will turn out.

Circular sticker on a read background with red and purple swirls with white letters that read “ope, I voted”

The kid captured the fireworks-like sunset that followed us all the way through Detroit towards home while we listened to Björk and talked about art.

Low sunset colors of orange and blue over cars traveling a highway with small clouds dotting the sky

Let the live woods wholly bloom like flames; strike the match; let their leaves flare with an autumn cry.

Photograph of a midwestern street in autumn, the trees and ground covered in yellow and orange leaves

We are fortunate to have one of the oldest, and therefore largest, trees in our tiny development. I appreciate the hell out of it and take daily breaks to stand under its welcoming branches, enjoying the colors. I love this tree.

Maple tree with red fall leaves, the sun is shining from behind it causing rays of light to illuminate it from within

A day of apple picking, a corn maze, and other fall favorites.

Photo of a rural dirt road with fall colored trees on both sides and a red farmhouse and silver grain silo on the left
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