WINTER LIGHT

    January 2020, 8 a.m. Winter Light Cornwallis Road

"When one sees the tree in leaf one thinks the beauty is in its leaves, and then one sees the bare tree."  

 The Bare Tree by Samuel Menashe (1925-2011), American poet

"I prefer winter and fall, 

when you feel the bone structure of the landscape -- the loneliness of it; the dead feeling of winter.  

Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show." 

Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), American visual artist

"There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... 

In spring, summer and fall 

people sort of have an open season on each other; 

only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself."

Ruth Stout (1884-1980), American author and gardener