more winter sunshine in the front yard

The morning sunlight that comes into the front yard is low, but intense for half an hour or so, creating some dramatic shadows.

And why, yes, we do indeed put some flowers in vases on the table in front of the kitchen window, so that we can fully enjoy them, without having the toxicity of lilies, say, inside the house and endangering the cats.  LucyFur was a determined chewer of plants, which made us rigorous in this respect - and now we'd never want to take the risk.  To be sure, those white tulips were perfectly harmless to felines, but they were disconcertingly droopy, and therefore banished ...