Captured here are the top of a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and the dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars.
The air is clean, stars are visible in their spangled glory at night, and in the fall and winter a roaring fire in a potbellied stove is complete bliss.
But Giuseppe was superb, he never got flustered, I knew everything would go well this morning when I saw his eyes sparkling with joy and determination.
The powdery snow glares like broken glass, touching everything as if all of the rooftops and trees and lawns were made of light, as if there were no such thing as darkness.
Appearing in an endless variety of shapes, they may be dazzlingly white, or they may be glassy blue, green or purple, tinted faintly of in darker hues.
Last night, the unheralded 25-year-old sprinter from China showed it off when he made history with a surprise gold in the men's 100m final at the 16th Asian Games.