Winter

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



A couple days ago, I had half an hour to spend before an appointment, so I used the time to take some photos. I was thinking about this quote by Andrew Wyeth as I looked around me.

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.

In Maine, we all sigh over winter, but there is something necessary in it for me as a writer.  Not just the stripping away of distractions that winter brings, but that loneliness and spareness--there's a creative richness there.