splinters of light

The temperature at our house on Friday morning was 16 below. I went to the morning meditation anyway, and coming out of Steve's office afterwards, the sun was shining brightly. As I walked over to my car, I noticed these small particles of ice floating about in the cold air. They were so small that the only time you could actually see them was when sunlight reflected off of them, little splinters of light. When I drove home in the evening, I saw a sun pillar off to the west. Sun pillars are caused by sunlight reflecting off ice crystals in the atmosphere. There's a lot of that going around.