Solstice

Unusually for southern Utah, the sky has been stubbornly overcast for three or four days.  One of those days—yesterday—was the winter solstice.  It was gloomy.  While I was working down a ridge by The Gap, I was pelted by rain.  Kind of depressing.  It made the lake—the LSL—look like a real lake, though.  And, on my way back to town, in the middle of the PV, the sun slanted through between the gloom and the ground.  It was a remarkably colorful shaft of light, making everything in the landscape beautiful.  It was, on the other hand, almost more depressing than the gloom.  It was one of those moments when, if you're paying attention, you realize that you are on the outside looking in, and that you haven't been invited to the planning meeting.