This is the way the year ends...

...or is it?

Drakes Creek, Picture by the Author, 12/31/20

New Years Eve 2020

The skies were a near unvarying shade of gray all day here in Middle Tennessee so that when the sun set for the final time on 2020 there were no spectacular shows of color, just a quiet fading to black. At first glance, it seemed a fitting end as I was driving back from the creek with the ki…