Photo: Vermont Winter Sunset Breaks Through Clouds

As a budding weather/landscape/nature photographer, winter isn't my favorite season. The clouds are usually not that interesting. Not like summer, anyway, with the big billows and puffballs and towering thunderstorms that you see so much of

Winter usually brings a dull overcast, a lack of color and not many interesting shapes.

But you get lucky sometimes too. Like yesterday, when a setting sun broke through some of the clouds, illuminating bits and pieces of Vermont mountains while adjacent hills continued to linger under dark clouds.

So I ended up with the pretty nice image you see in this post, which shows Mount Mansfield, peeking out from the clouds, as seen from Fairfax, Vermont.