and there was colour

busy busy day - we cleaned rob and shels house from top to bottomn (fully aware that they would never notice most of what we did - vacuuming out the dust from inside the big cast iron radiators, dusting the moulding behind the couch, scrubbing the floor in the laundry room) and went shopping for the big meal we then prepared...

a whole day with our nose to the grindstone, hardly ever looking up - and when we did, the day was a cold drab affair of swirling snow, white on black on mostly grey

finally at 4:30 we had everything ready and went for a walk down under the bridge - there we looked up, and there was colour - the sunsetting behind the north end, silouhetting the macdonald bridge - it was freezing down there in the wind damp off the ocean - but from that moment on, the day was warm and cozy - the family arrived home soon after - we served up our tasty lightly spiced meal - poured wine - and laughed