Real life snow looks nothing like pristine painting snow…at least not when you live in my neighborhood.
Snow is not an instant glamorizer.
Daily Diversion #193: Snow is Not an Instant Glamorizer
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Interminable Winter
Winter always looks nicer in paintings. Majestic. Charming. Unblemished. Like this:
Winter Morning by Andrei Ryabushkin, 1903.
I’m done trying to fancy up the season with quotes by intelligent, creative dead people. If they were here, they’d probably be annoyed, too.
Daily Diversion #191: A Very Fashionable Dog
Dunc keeping warm on a cold, cold night.
Dunc, being adorable.
Daily Diversion #190: A Winter Sunset’s Dying Light
A Winter Sunset’s Dying Light
Daily Diversion #187: All the Cool Kids
All the cool kids were doing it yesterday…
All the cool kids were doing it yesterday…
Boiling water thrown into frigid air=this!
It was so much fun, we ultimately did it three times!
This is what happens when two bored adults are housebound during a vicious cold spell.
“Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.”-Sinclair Lewis
Daily Diversion #186: Backyard Tree in Snow
Backyard Tree in Snow
Snow always looks better when captured in black and white.
Writers Enjoying Winter, Part One
The Fitzgerald Family Celebrating Christmas
Ernest, Hadley, and Jack Hemingway in Schruns, Austria (1925)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle enjoying a ski holiday
Sylvia Plath and Marcia Brown Stern (courtesy Alumnae Association of Smith College)
Daily Diversion #182: Sledding Eeyore
Eeyore enjoying some winter fun!
Sledding Eeyore
“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”-A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
Inspiration Board: 12th December
I’m feeling frosty! Can you tell?
Cavern in an ice wall, near Commonwealth Bay
Gertie the Dinosaur, 1914
Au Clair de la Lune Children’s Book, 1910s
Blue Snow, the Battery by George Bellows, December 1910
Asta Nielsen
Old Pscov by Konstantin Gorbatov, 1913
The Passion of Joan of Arc, 1928
Portrait of Fritza Riedler by Gustav Klimt, 1906
Sunset over Waterloo Bridge by Emile Claus
The Tetons and the Snake River by Ansel Adams, 1942
Valeska Suratt, 1917
Women playing hockey outside of Varsity Arena, Toronto, 1910
[My Top Cold Weather Writers] Honorable Mention: Charles Dickens
CHARLES DICKENS
Charles Dickens
REASON: Is it possible to get through winter without pulling out a volume of Dickens? What a desperate, weary, chilly world his characters inhabit! It is enough to make the pages freeze mid-turn.
“Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.”-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
If you missed My Top Six Cold Weather Writers, go here.
For Honorable Mention: Christina Rossetti, go here.
Thanks to Tom Gething for reminding me that Charles Dickens deserves a place on my list!
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