The last couple of weeks my son and I have been housebound with grey, rainy days that had the front yard melting into green grass. I've been bemoaning this lacklustre winter and longing for a few more blizzards myself. Then the sun came out one afternoon. As evening began, I walked my own sonshine into the bathroom to see what rays can do to a coloured ball of glass. I love this photo, his fingers stretching out to a rainbow globe after a long, grey, snowless couple of weeks and the shadows of my pines stretching like fingers themselves to touch the sunny smiles he emits. They appear to be reaching for each other. I realized it was later in the day than I thought, the sun still slowly setting and the long shadows seemed to be the very fingers of Spring stretching herself, yawning as she throws her arms over her head and flexes her fingers, preparing to properly awaken 'neath the snow and pull us all towards the Summer Solstice...
