Finally the holiday decorations are disappearing. They’re gone from the mall, they’re gone from Main Street. In fact, the only place that still has Christmas lights left, is the house of our neighbor across the street. He’ll take then down around Valentines day. I suppose that’s not a really big thing to complain about, but he does run his lawnmower crack of 8am in the summer, too.

So life is a nice, grey wintertime.

There’s a certain challenge to making drawing of interest, hopefully beauty in the dismal month of January. Unless you have a very nice snowfall, that is, and the snow gets dirty and slushy fast.

Winter beaches can be beautiful, and quite romantic.