With the strings of holiday lights and lawns filled with illuminated Santas, candy canes and Nativity scenes, it's easy to overlook the gorgeous colors and shapes Mother Nature has on display in the depths of the darkest days of winter. Staff photographer Bradley Enghaus took these images of berries upstaging a string of lights, pods weathered gray and ready to drop their black seeds for spring's new crop, and rose hips dipping toward earth on their thorny stem all in the Mount Baker neighborhood solstice eve.For six months we have been losing daylight, but the sun started its slow journey back on Dec. 22. when it set at 4:21 p.m., a mark that will gain by about a minute per day until the heat of summer is at its peak and we've all forgotten about our months of cold rain and close skies.
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