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After several years winter returned to Holland. It started with a severe snow storm. This is a few days later on a day with sunshine. Ringvaart polder Purmer. Waterland, 2021.
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A pair of cardinals were sitting on snow and ice covered branches in the yard after a recent snowstorm.
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Taken in Cumbria on 02 March 2016 when it seemed we were heading towards spring. Taken from the town of Shap
This is my first snow shot of the 2015/2016 winter
I am amazed at how long this Sweet Spire (Itea) plant is holding on to its leaves even in mid-December when its fellow garden plants are bare-branched. Even after the strong wind storm that blew through the garden last night, it still is holding on to its lovely leaves.
"Winter, come rest your soul
on autumn's weary head.
Twirl, shimmer, soften
before tucking fall to bed."
~ Angie Weiland-Crosby
It's really October in the pic. :-)
Happy Sliders Sunday!! The funnest day of the week!! LOL.
I wound up having to select the entire tree to recolor it, then did the texture on just the tree. Oh, and changed the beautiful blue sky to lavender! Why not. :-)
Thankfully, I had this mostly done a few weeks ago. I just put my name on it this morning. Hope you like!
"In the winter time
When all the leaves are brown
And the wind blows so chill
And the birds have all flown for the summer
I'm callin', hear me callin', hear me callin'..."
The Steve Miller Band: youtu.be/93AymOJkKcw
Blick über den TOLLENSESEE
DIESES Jahr ist er nicht zugefroren. Dazu muss es mehrere WOCHEN starken Frost geben, TAG und Nacht. Der See ist 18 m durchschnittlich tief. In der Tiefe ist der SEE 4 Grad warm.
2010 war der See begehbar.
WINTER STAR
Dedicated to our dear friend Dave Senior, RIP Dear Heart
Hello my friend, my soul aches
At finding you still in pain
But what better symbol
Could you have been for me then?
Sacrifice, resurrection and beginning again
Once I had seen you I could not stop
Every time I came here I seemed to cry a lot
Calling your name endlessly out loud
With the taste of copper in my mouth
You put up with my rages, regrets and frustrations
Letting me see your leaves shiver with sensation
Against the sliding metallic sheen of this night
The air like rippling silver shards
Cutting into me like glass
Piercing my heart until I could see a thousand stars
You were so human I wondered if you would
Reach down and place your boughs around me
But you were also tied in your own way
Caught up, longing to be free
Twisting in the wind
Masquerading as a tree
Just as I wander in this twilight world
Never really quite understanding
Why you have so much love for me
*****
This work is another in my series of The Christ Tree poems, and I am including it here in this most recent series of images as a dedication to a dear friend of ours who we heard had passed away suddenly, unexpectedly, while we were recovering from Covid.
Dave Senior was a gentle, kind man, an incredibly talented designer and illustrator, and we will miss him terribly. Dave always encouraged and supported my work, and I will miss his quiet guidance. Our thoughts are with his family.
Dave found his own healing in the natural world, and I am sure he is following his own river, down to the sea.
With this work I have paired U2’s ‘One Tree Hill’, an early, emotive, live version.
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