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Happy Sunday! Happy day after Christmas. Happy Boxing Day.<\/p>\n

After our brief snowstorm last week, the sky lightened and the light grew as the sun peaked out off and on, and the world, just for a few moments, glittered and sparkled with what seemed an inner light. With temperatures rapidly rising to the upper 30s, the snow on the trees came literally and figuratively raining<\/em> down. I attempted to find a spot to catch the light before it passed.<\/p>\n

We are having unusually high tides the past week, with the full moon, coastal runoff, and onshore winds, and here we see the lower Mosuam River filled brim to brim. Where I stood to take the image, you generally look out over a relatively dry marsh to the river which runs, in perspective, not far in front of the trees and houses on the far side. The trees at the right are generally 300 yards from water, even at high tide.<\/p>\n

But, of course, what really caught my eye was the sky and the light in the water, the silvery blue expanse, full of texture and movement, running back under that strong diagonal mass of cloud\u2026and the highlight behind the bare trees on the right.<\/p>\n

To capture this range of light with my Canon SX20IS, I resorted to HDR, three exposures centered around \u20132\/3 EV, then assembled and tone-mapped in Photomatix Pro from within Lightroom. Final processing for intensity and clarity, some sharpening, and a bit of distortion adjustment for the horizon, produced the result above.<\/p>\n

The Sunday thought?\u2026in less than an hour we went from the quiet beauty of falling snow and misty light, a soft intimate world where even the sounds are muted\u2026to this splash of glory, noisy with light and drama\u2026as overfilled and overflowing as the banks of the Mousam. And that is a metaphor for the well developed spiritual life. From the babe in the manger to the transfiguration and the assentation, and all in-between, all part of our experience, coming in waves along the stream of time. All we have to do is to be open to all of it. There is beauty in every moment.<\/p>\n

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