Country road in winter
This long and (partly) winding road represents to me the year 2014 as it is coming to an end. A first snow covered our mountains for a few days before spring-like temperatures melted most of it in two days. For me, it’s time to settle in for winter and take stock of the events and insights from the year.
Ed’s Sunday Stills theme: The Long and Winding Road.
The Beauty Along the Road 
I can’t believe it’s already cold and snowing, although we did not have snow in Richmond. Whew!
Nancy
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Hi Nancy – yes, we already had over a foot of snow last week!
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this is gorgeous~
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Thank you, Cindy.
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I think that’s what winter is for!
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Carol – even though I resist winter (it’s just too darn long up here), I do appreciate the chance to hunker down, slow down, re-assess and prepare for the new year.
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Love it!
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🙂
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Lovely angles here…
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Thank you, Karen.
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This image also reminds me of my 2014 and strangely or not Hex 53 of the I Ching. I like it a lot. On the flip side – over here summer has just made a flying leap from the wings to land, smack, bang, centre-stage. It’s hot!
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I’ll have to look up #53 of the I Ching…and send a little of that summer up North, please 🙂
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Robyn – just read Hexagram #53 and the sentence that stuck out was this one: “Life often demands that we wait longer than we might like for some change, and the only true comfort available during these times is the knowledge that we are steadfastly developing ourselves into superior people.” Gradual progress, indeed!
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Aye – gradual progress 🙂
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I love this photo. Good job.
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Thanks, happy you like it.
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Its just gorgeous, its like a zipper that has been opened on the landscape if you don’t look too clearly at it. Its almost monochrome and would look, I imagine, just as great in black and white 🙂
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Thank you – I like that zipper analogy 🙂
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I love the contrast of the black ribbon through the white, especially the distinct edges. There’s no in between.
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Thank you. There’s something very pleasing about the ribbon of road winding itself thru the landscape. I have taken this picture from many different angles and during different seasons.
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Who knew that that is what winter is for. So brilliant yet so simple. Thank you Annette, you are a star. 😀
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That’s the process that happens in nature, Nomzi – pulling inward, hibernating, but still gathering forces for spring. I recently got nervous about the garlic I planted in late Sept/early October because most of it had not put up green shoots (garlic cloves get planted in late fall and overwinter in the soil). so I dug up the rows to see what was happening and it was amazing: the cloves had developed a substantial rootball and were beginning to send up shoots. That’s the symbolism of what’s possible during the winter.
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Incredible. Simply incredible Annette. Huge aha moment there. Thank you so very much for that lesson. 🙂
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So beautiful, Annette, but I don’t envy you the cold weather. 🙂
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I’m eyeing Florida, Sylvia….
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This such a starkly splendid photo, Annette. Very shivery though. It’s turned cold in the UK too, though we have sun.
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Thank you, Tish, for your “starkly splendid” compliment. I love that expression – so British – would never hear that in the US 🙂
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🙂
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There’s something about this image that strikes a chord in a wistful sort of way. It’s quite beautiful, Annette.
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In a wistful, wintery sort of way, perhaps? Thanks, Barbara.
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Annette, your beautiful image reminds me so much of Germany, it kind of made me homesick, but in a good way.
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Isn’t it strange that I end up living in an area that is so similar to the Black Forest where I grew up?!
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Not that strange, lucky you I would say.
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