Don’t want to go out much when it’s this cold. To be an equal opportunity picture-taker, I opened our front door, too, when I discovered it was -3F at 7 a.m. where we live. Yup. Central New York, not anything with arctic in the title.

Pure cold. It’s not often that your trusted weather app tells you that it was -3 F when you got up at 7 a.m. That’s what pure cold looked like out our back door. Not wind chill. Temperature. Not overnight. 7 a.m. Yikes, is what I say about winter 2026.

Good things, too. We haven’t had too many days to cherish a blue sky this month in our part of this planet. Snow, cold. Cold, snow. When I noticed the chance to match the high snow against our lake view with a clear sky this past weekend, I pulled out the good camera on my…