"And never yet could ye cast your spirit into a pit of snow: ye are not hot enough for that!...

No coments, compliments for the pic, I like it as it is, well done.

> it's rare in my part of the country to get such a clear day,

here (better don't say where :-) in the mountains almost every day is clear. we've got 300 days of sun per year and many of them are even completely cloudless. Compare this e.g. to the city of Paris which gets in total 300 hours of sun per year although the sky above big cities is never really deep blue.

an internship student from England who came here always asked "why is the sky so blue?"