January 2nd

January 2nd is always tinged with a bit of melancholy. The holiday hubbub has receded. The New Year's fun and games have retired and thankfully so. It was enjoyable but can't go on forever. The decorations are down and put away (sort of - there are all those stray items that didn't manage to get in the Christmas storage first time around that keep popping up here and there - and the residue holiday dust becomes evident as you move out decorations and try to re-establish a normal living environment.) It's cold outside and the temperature is dropping, literally as a rain-sleet-snow storm moves in. Spring is not really around the corner. Winter is just hunkering down for the duration. Family members are leaving (or have left). It takes a few weeks for the pendulum to swing back to the middle.

P.S. I know the calendar pictured is the wrong year. It was easy and at hand.