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January Color

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photo by Sylvia

January is proving to be snowy and cold with white skies and treacherous roads. I marvel at the frozen beauty falling in a horizontal slant during a squall or drifting quietly out the kitchen window. My eyes are almost blinded by bright colors inside; I focus gently on softer hues, fairy lights, dried flowers, branches covered in yarn, books on snowflake photographs and these words from Thoreau:

January 1852: “The blue in my eye sympathizes with this blue in the snow….Would not snowdrifts be a good study,—their philosophy and poetry?” from The Journal 1937–1861 by Henry David Thoreau

photo by Sylvia

35 thoughts on “January Color”

  2. Beautiful photos, Sylvia!! The plant under glass is lovely! By the way, I was once again banned from Instagram so I am not trying to return this time.

    My crime was making the comment that if the Mexican government really wants to help, they can stop allowing their citizens to flow into our country.

    This is regarding Mexico helping with the fires in Socal. That is pure censorship and I am done with these leftist bullies. It’s just social media…

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    1. Yes, I saw your explanation on one of your posts. Although I did not vote for the incoming person that will now be our president and disagree beyond a shadow of a doubt with nearly everything this person stands for, the issue of immigration is one that we all can agree is difficult to manage. Censorship for your opinion seems somewhat random to me on that platform especially since it was not inciting violence. I’ll continue to admire your beautiful blue Vegas skies on WordPress John.

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    2. I was wondering where you disappeared, one minute you’re there, the next you’re not. I was admiring the blue in your skies. I agree with Sylvia regarding the randomness on what is “deemed” to be acceptable and unacceptable. But, it is something going around these days.

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      1. Did you change your avatar? I don’t recognise you, sorry. I’m just sick of the bullying that IG dishes out, they are the fun police, doing there best to stop people from enjoying the platform. Jerks! Let’s see them bully me here on my website…

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  3. “I marvel at the frozen beauty falling in a horizontal slant during a squall or drifting quietly out the kitchen window. My eyes are almost blinded by bright colors inside …”

    Often, I wear my sunglasses to avoid “snow-blindness” when I look outside on very snowy days. 😎😎😎

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  4. Living in Virginia now, Sylvia, I’ve been seeing snowy woods as you see them. Quite different than Oregon but also beautiful. Your description is great. I wear sunglasses when we go for walks in the snow. Tomorrow we will be in Hawaii for a month, however. We won’t be seeing any snow. Grin.

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  6. I so enjoyed your wintry woods and description of the brightness, Sylvia. I can see how the fairy lights in this lovely glass capsule softened the glare. Sending big smiles your way.

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      2. My landscape changes very dramatically with the seasons, and I never tire of the different stages. There is a certain beauty in the actual change — things look different, but also they smell different and they certainly feel different. In the summer we have reached temperatures near 100 degrees (F) and next week there’s a day that is forecasted to have a high of 6 degrees.

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      3. The smells of the Australian bush change in the seasons. Just now a lot of the trees shed bark so from my window the trees that had a grey coloured bark are now a bright white. 100F is a lot of Summer. Winter over nights may get as low as 35F but the days are in the 60’F
        *guessing conversions from C to F

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