Midwinter Sunrise - 09:36

Not strictly speaking - the actual midwinter sunrise, closest to the solstice, is on the 22nd, three days away but according to the forecast it's going to be total cloud cover for the next 8 days and on the 22nd it will be raining, or more hopefully snowing, heavily. So if I'm going to get a picture, today's the day!

Jan was up two hours earlier and took her picture at first light, when the sun was below the horizon and behind those trees.
The sunrise has been working its way along our horizon since Midsummer. Then it was rising way off the picture to the left. In compass terms at Midsummer it was rising slightly N of NW but as summer, autumn and the start of winter passed it moved in from the left and travelled past the trees, heading southwards until it reached the open space it now rises in, slightly S of SW. It will move very slightly to the right (southwards) over the next three mornings but not enough to notice, so for an observer (without a sophisticated observatory, like Stonehenge) the sunrise has now stopped moving.  A week from now it will be moving back, leftwards, along the horizon, heading N, towards Midsummer once more!

Solstice (noun), from Latin solstitium "point at which the sun seems to stand still,"  from sol "the sun" + sistere "stand still, take a stand..."