The Color of My Winter is Gray
January 9, 2012
January skies
“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!
Rosemary's Blog 
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.