Stanley Park: Part 1

I may have mentioned that I have sleep issues which often make it difficult for me to get up and catch the early light. Winter should be easier, because the morning gets up even later than I do, but the cold and the dark are so depressing and intimidating that I often don't take advantage of it. Over Christmas and New Year we had a spell of clear cold weather and, on what turned out to be the last day of that run, I got up, after a short sleep, with an unusually positive attitude and decided to try to greet the sun with my camera. I got dressed and drove to Stanley Park. Because it was still a holiday the roads were clear and I arrived in time to find some of my favorite conditions. There was a light fog over the park that gave it a magical quality. The light that filtered through it was like a fine dust that settled on the trees, frost and ground ...