In my experience, if you are looking for the epitome of winter glory, you need to look no further than Bavaria in Germany.  I came across this wonderful image by Armin Weigel for the AFP of yesterday’s full moon setting over the parish church of Schoenach near the Bavarian village of Regensburg in Germany.  It’s got everything required the cold blueness and the snow create a sense of absolutely frigid winter. Readers of Hati and Skoll will recognize the allusion to the end of the Norse world, the Gotterdammerung.  And yet the glorious moon hovers and dances in thermal disequillibrium over the church, creating a pale and incongruous golden warmth.

And as for the moon, it will soon be out of the way at night and readers are advised to search out either with naked eye or binoculars the green glory og comet Lovejoy in early February. Cameras out please!