The year’s midnight

Today I removed five rods, two landing nets, a wading staff, two pairs of waders, and a bag of clothes, reels and fly boxes from the car to make room for a Christmas tree. Could anything be more dispiriting and wrong? Only four months ago, the world looked like this, which is the Trysil river, at about seven in the morning. (The main image is a 1MB download. You have been warned.)
Of course, at this time of year, the river looks like this