Luminous Clouds and I didn't have to

and I didn't have to make any compositional changes

they roll out

but one of my favorite television ad campaigns of all time was the classic Southwest Airlines "Wanna get away

As a saxophonist

and yellows during a winter morning

Luminous Clouds and I didn't have toI love winter. I guess it's because I grew up in southern Wisconsin, a place where the short days of December bring nightfall by about 4: 15 in the afternoon. A place where the first week of January is often notoriously cold, sometimes with many days in a row when the daytime never crests zero degrees Fahrenheit. But it's such a clarifying season. A time to rest, recharge, and see the natural world stripped down to its barest essentials. I caught this