Catching January's Sunny Rays

As meteorologists have predicted, the Canadian prairies are experiencing up-and-down temperatures this winter. Snowfall is down; temperatures are record-breaking (warm) and then occasionally dip down to normal (well below 0 Celsius for a day or two). On January 9th, Isabel sat outside in her warm wool Robertson tartan cape for 15 minutes breathing in fresh air and soaking up the sun. Yesterday was cold and so windy that her Christmas wreath wired to the bird feeder outside her window blew off. Mum's room faces north and she does not see sunrises or sunsets but the lovely windows facing east in the public halls of the BICC enable her to catch some sun inside, too. Days are lengthening. Isabel remarked that it is in the next few days that Bert (Dad) used to remark that the days are lengthening and the eastern sky light and pink as he headed out to feed the cows. The deep, dark cold of the early weeks of January are quickly passing.