The morning after the night before…
One night a week or so ago, I went outside with the dog just before bedtime, and I saw something in the night sky I don’t remember ever seeing before. To the southeast, the nearest town is just on the other side of the low ridge shown in the next photo. And coming up from the “glow” were these really strange light pillars. I turned to the north (last photo) and saw the same thing in the sky above a well-lit-up industrial site.
Ice crystals caught in the light! I was amazed to discover my phone camera captured the phenomena very much how I saw it in person. So cool! Have you ever seen anything like it?
The next morning, our entire valley was shrouded in a low-hanging fog like in the above photo. It was breathtakingly beautiful.
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On Saturday, Amy R Anguish shared her challenge to read
Next Week on Inspy Romance
Monday: Hannah Jo Abbott
Tuesday: Valerie Comer (My Boy and Me)
Wednesday: Jaycee Weaver
Thursday: Mandi Blake (The Year of Books)
Friday: Lindi Peterson (Here’s to a Beautiful 22 #giveaway)
Saturday: Angela Ruth Strong
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January 2022
Postcards by Elizabeth Maddrey
Love on Ice (Original Six Hockey Romance 2) by Carolyn Miller
Waiting for Right Now (Finding Home Book 4) by K. Leah
Truth is a Whisper (Wolf Creek Ranch 1) by Mandi Blake
Dancing with Dandelion (Bloom Sisters 7) by Tara Grace Ericson
Hope for The Cowboy (Whispering Oaks Ranch 1) by Hannah Jo Abbott
December 2021
Romanced by the Hero (Heroes of Freedom Ridge 12) by Liwen Y. Ho
Their Unbreakable Bond (Rocky Mountain Family 4) (K9 Companions 1) by Deb Kastner
The Breakup Project (Original Six Hockey Romance 1) by Carolyn Miller
Reclaiming Hope (Independence Islands 18) by Carolyn Miller
Healing Skye (Coastal Hearts) by Janet W Ferguson
No Place Like Home by Amy R Anguish
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Valerie Comer is a USA Today bestselling author and a two-time Word Award winner who writes where food meets faith and fiction. She injects experience laced with humor into her green clean romances. Her life on a small farm in western Canada provides the seed for stories of contemporary inspirational romance. Like many of her characters, Valerie and her family grow much of their own food and are active in the local foods movement as well as their church. She only hopes her creations enjoy their happily-ever-afters as much as she does hers, shared with her husband, adult kids, and adorable granddaughters.
OH WOW that looks so amazing and so glad you got to see it and were able to capture it for us.
Thanks to Inspy for my giftcard it was a wonderful surprise.
Congrats to the other winners also.
An amazing phenomena.
Good Morning Valerie and Ispy Romance readers! The world is full of beautiful phenomena! Thanks for sharing. In a way I understand the science behind the beautiful you saw. Living in SW Michigan across Lake Michigan from the Windy City, on cool dry evenings we have often see in the sunset the outline of the Chicago skyline. The distance across the lake is 50 miles. About once or twice a year you can even see cars driving down Lakeshore Drive. I have seen this with binoculars from my brother’s house. Local scientists every year describe the phenomena.
I want to give a shout out to Merrille When’s January 2022 release Hometown Hero. I enjoyed the unique premise The Twelve Dogs of Christmas and learned about 6 kinds of service dogs, traveled the US with fabulous descriptions of Chicago, Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse. Please add to the book list. Also enjoyed reading Janet Ferguson’s December release Healing Skye. Congrats to December winners. Thanks and Best wishes.
Looks stunning, what great timing to see it :)
Oh, wow, how cool, in more ways than one! I’ve not seen anything like it, but of course, I’m in FL, and we don’t get frost much, much less anything like this! Congratulations to the December winners!
Thanks and you’re welcome! :)
Wasn’t that cool?!?!
Thanks for the heads up that Merrillee’s link is live. Last time I checked, it wasn’t up yet! (It is up to our authors to make sure their books are on the list, though, for the record.)
And isn’t it crazy how far you can see when conditions are EXACTLY right?
Yes, it was! The sight lingered for quite a while, though. The conditions were just right.
Yes, there are many beauties that make up for the cold temperature :)
Wow! Impressive shots of God’s beauty!
Mixed with some man-made lights! ;)
How beautiful is that! There is beauty to be found everywhere if we take a moment to look for it! Thank you for sharing ❤️
Congratulations to the winners!
Amazing photos! I am blown away by how good phone cameras are now! I hardly ever pull out my DSLR any more!
My Canon has much better zoom. Otherwise my phone camera is just as good… and honestly, better in low light.
Thanks!
There sure is beauty everywhere!
Those are some very cool pictures Valerie! I’m amazed at the quality of phone cameras nowadays.
Congrats to this weeks winners! Happy SONday everyone!
Hi, Valerie! Such beautiful images. Congratulations to our winners!
I agree, phone cameras are so good now!
Thank you!
Wow, what a site to see, I’m sure it was alot more impressive seeing it live then the pictures, the pictures are really great! Thank you for sharing them. Congratulations to the winners. May you all have a great and safe week.
The pictures are stunning. Thank you so much for sharing. Congratulations to the winners. God bless you.
Congrats to the winners!
Love the photos. Congrats to the winners
Congrats
You do kind of miss the bone-chilling air seeing the photo rather than being there in person ;)
Thank you and you’re welcome :)
Thank you!
Thanks!
Thank you!