Warm Wishes on a Cold Winter Evening

We had an ideal dusting of snow today. It was not enough to stick to the pavement and just enough to make the trees look beautiful. 

This weather makes my winter mantel look quite fitting!

On New Year's Day when I undecorated, I decided that I just wasn't ready to pack away the garland and so I removed the Christmas ribbon and the ornaments which were all wired in and inserted some crocheted snowflakes instead. I think it will be cozy to enjoy our lighted garland throughout January on cold winter evenings.

This snowman (actually an oversized cookie jar) reminds me of January, so I put him on a burlap runner and added pinecones. Some candles sit on the other end of the mantel.

I put my snow owl and some greenery on a miniature bale of authentic cotton and added it to the hearth.

If you look out the door in the picture below, you will see the blue sky.

It's visible in this picture, too.

I just happened to take these photos during "blue hour". It occurs during the last stages of evening twilight and it is explained in the following definition which I copied and pasted from Wikipedia: 

The blue hour (from French l'heure bleue) is the period of twilight in the morning or evening, during the civil and nautical stages, when the sun is at a significant depth below the horizon and residual, indirect sunlight takes on a predominantly blue shade.

I send you warm wishes on this cold winter evening. Have a blessed weekend, too!