The kingdom of silver and gold

This week, temperatures finally dipped below freezing for the first time in a month. With no moisture in the forecast, a chilly, but mostly gray and brown Christmas season appeared inevitable. The sled we’d taken out after the first blizzard sat forlornly by the porch, the frosty holiday decorations we’d hung oddly incongruous with the view outside the house. Then we woke up on Saturday to a fog…