The Color of My Winter is Gray
January 9, 2012
“By December the new season was entrenched, and the city was covered almost every day by an ominous steel-grey sky, like one in a painting by Mantegna or Veronese, the perfect backdrop to the crucifixion of Christ or to a day beneath the bedclothes.”
— Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
“Winter is a blue season, gray-blue at dawn, blue-white in landscapes, and for many people blue in mood.”
— Diane Ackerman, Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day
What color is your winter? Mine definitely looks more like de Botton’s description — gray, gray, gray. I like how his comments about all the grayness end with a rather cozy image of lingering in bed beneath warm blankets!
January 9, 2012 at 9:57 am
My winter is whatever color I wish to see, may that comment not bite me in the butt on the way out too! 😀
January 9, 2012 at 12:40 pm
I believe I have more of a ‘Diane Ackerman winter’. Come and have a look!
January 9, 2012 at 12:41 pm
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January 9, 2012 at 3:51 pm
Very nice and very blue!
January 9, 2012 at 1:24 pm
Ours is green, the winter rain means the garden says party Party PARTY!!!
January 9, 2012 at 5:49 pm
I remember green! I have to say, one of the nice things about having a reader in the southern hemisphere is the reminder that our winters are your summers. Enjoy your garden!
January 10, 2012 at 6:51 am
Our winter is brown brown brown, no snow..Maybe tonight we will get snow
January 10, 2012 at 9:14 am
The last few days of my winter have been a red/pink/lavender sky as the sun goes down and a huge orange full moon rising in the black eastern sky that sparkles with twinkling stars.
January 10, 2012 at 1:25 pm
Wow, that sounds beautiful!
February 16, 2012 at 7:25 am
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February 16, 2012 at 9:02 am
Gray and brown. But some days with a sky so blue it hurts your eyes and makes you dizzy.