March Photo A Day - Hot

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today's photo prompt is "Hot." Most of my photos are of weather and nature, and there has been nothing hot about our spring thus far.  Last night's sunset, however, was a blaze of tangerine fire lighting the western sky.  I could see just a bit through the line of cedars that edge the front yard.

This morning, it was a different world, and the sun rose silver and pale, gleaming softly over thick frost and dense fog.  The art in the garden looked like ghosts dancing in the morning air as I stood on the upper deck, wide-eyed and barefoot, with a mug of coffee in my hands.  The world on such a morning is a marvel.  When a friend called and invited me, spontaneously, on an excursion, how could I resist?  An hour later, chores quickly finished, we drove off into rising mist toward the small city to the south.

Wherever you are, whatever the weather, I wish you wonder and joy.

Information on the Photo A Day Challenge may be found here. It is nearly over, but it has been fun and oft times challenging!  Tomorrow's prompt is shiny.

quote (one of my favorites!) from: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/354-live-in-the-sunshine-swim-the-sea-drink-the-wild