This is another image taken during the recent snowstorm that wrapped up on a Sunday morning. Thanks to the timing of that storm I found myself basically alone to shoot several scenes of this local downtown decked out for the holidays. I always like having time to do what I want, when I want without complications and that might possibly come from being an only child! When I was young my parents would have fights and the talk of divorce was spoken out loud frequently and became a very real fear that occupied a lot of my mind. Those days of my youth were indelibly burned into my mind,not knowing where I would end up or what might unfold and that is still etched in my memory almost 50 plus years later. To their credit they somehow managed to reconcile their issues, but whenever I see a child who has to deal with the finality of divorce, I remember vividly how it affected me even though my parents stayed together, so I have much empathy for those kids. Now back on track, My wife loves to come up with things to do when I take vacation but those ideas are usually not well received. For some reason I count the days till going back to work and when someone suggests using a day for whatever unplanned idea they have, it usually ends up with me getting irritated and dwelling on the vacation getting shorter? These moments out in the elements and the gift of being able to see and capture the beauty is something I need to express my gratitude for the blessings I have been given more often! Any psychoanalysts out there who have a hypothesis for my strange vacation reasoning?