Starting in early winter, like the beginning of December, when the air is clear and cold and the moon is full, the moonsets are beautiful. I like it better when the whole world is white, but this will do in the meantime.
The sun is just barely peeking over the horizon to the east, and painting the far mountain peaks with the early morning light.
The sky is subtle colors like a rainbow shading from purple to pink to a faint yellow and green to blue. Our camera isn't good enough to capture these pastels.
We adjusted the angle on the solar panels to much steeper as the sun isn’t very high above the horizon in mid day and we want to capture every bit of energy it has to give. It’s a cold morning, +10F for the low and up to a balmy +15F at mid day. Dan is starting a fire in the new wood stove in the basement to warm up our batteries, the better for them to accept the energy from the sun. It an interesting thing indeed. The colder the solar panels are, the more effective they become, while the opposite applies in terms of heat. And the warmer the batteries are, the more effective they are, while the opposite applies to them as well.