Today I discovered that these little purple crocuses have begun to bloom all over outside our house. It is February and there should not be crocuses, but there are. 

And tonight at sunset, the sea was just this color, purple and luminous, and the sky was just this aching orange gold.  

Every night at sunset, Jonathan and I call out to each other "Look at the sky! Look at the sky!" from different rooms of the house. We have given up trying to photograph it.