A dreary Iowa day

Today is a dreary day, everything is overcast, a bit tepid really. The snow has melted a little bit, leaving strange patches of dead winter grass, surrounded by mud-covered mounds of snow. The wind is strong, and very cold, it gets dark much earlier here, around four thirty, I went from extreme to extreme, solstice to solstice.... summer to winter...luckily I will go back again...