It is a monochromatic world I pass thru on my drive to work today. After a week of beautiful, clear, but cold mornings, the overcast sky today has shut down the world’s colors.

The leafless trees show gray bark to the world. Even the evergreens along the edge of the road have pulled on a pale gray overcoat. The dried grass along the right-of-way were green just last week, but now, even they are almost all a brown-gray.

Driving home last evening the setting sun in my rearview window highlighting the lines of trees along the fence lines, calling out the brown grasses and the humped shapes of the prairie rose, brown also, I was enthralled with the view.

The only thing missing from my winter commute are the great numbers of raptors that call this area home each winter. I am sure they are yet to come flying in from further north.