21-February-2008

"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

Winter

"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