A peek out my studio window

[petermfiore]

A peek out my studio window...

Petert

[PeterAit]

A peek out my studio window...

Petert

I want your studio!

[petermfiore]

I want your studio!

You can't have it...lol.  I still need it.

Peter

[DougDolde]

No thanks 70 and sunny today in Joshua Tree

[RSL]

Love the pink sky, Peter, but brrrrr...

[petermfiore]

Doug and Russ,

What can I say...born and raised in the northeast. Love the winters here. such a sense of calm like no other. It's also my life's work. Painting winter.

Peter

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Doug and Russ,

What can I say...born and raised in the northeast. Love the winters here. such a sense of calm like no other. It's also my life's work. Painting winter.

Peter

I love winter, too. I just wish it could be a little less cold and still just as beautiful.

Eric

[Rob C]

Eric's right: only it's better on postcards and preferably somewhere I'm not.

Winters, for me, are not about Santa but about my shirts coming in from a Scottish washing line stiff, arms outstretched as if inhabited by thin ghosts.

Winters in Mallorca are wonderful during the sunshine period, but murder when that Sun goes down. Winter rain is the most depressing type there is: just one degree removed from sleet, it chills you to the bone and getting home helps very little: the walls are either hollow blocks or solid stone, neither of which acually scream welcome. Heating? The utilities company laughs out loud as you run up a fortune in bills, reluctantly and unavoidably heating the garden outside.

Ceylon, anyone?

;-)

Rob

[petermfiore]

I love winter, too. I just wish it could be a little less cold and still just as beautiful.

Eric

Hi Eric,
Is that possible??

Peter

[GrahamBy]

I love winter, too. I just wish it could be a little less cold and still just as beautiful.

Eric

Hmm, Ice-9 ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-nine

[RSL]

Doug and Russ,

What can I say...born and raised in the northeast. Love the winters here. such a sense of calm like no other. It's also my life's work. Painting winter.

Peter

Hi Peter,

I'm  not exactly unfamiliar with winter. I was born and raised in Michigan, spent a couple years in Rapid City, South Dakota, a total of five years in Great Falls, Montana on two different tours (temperature one morning -45), spent three years in Beausejour, Manitoba, and except for a year's break in Southeast Asia, fifty years in the Colorado Springs area. Within reason, I love snow. The best snow always was in Colorado Springs. A blizzard would whip through, drop a bunch of snow, and three days later the snow would be gone. The roads wouldn't get very sloppy because at around 6,000+ feet the stuff tends to sublime rather than melt.

[Kevin Gallagher]

 Nice shot Peter, what State are you in?

 Kevin in CT

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Hi Eric,
Is that possible??

Peter

I don't think so.

Unless I can find a source for Graham's Ice-9.

Eric

[petermfiore]

Nice shot Peter, what State are you in?

 Kevin in CT

Northeast corner of PA. In truth the easter most town in PA.

Peter

[petermfiore]

I don't think so.

Unless I can find a source for Graham's Ice-9.

Eric

Just on the other side of our Cat's Cradle.

Peter

[Patricia Sheley]

Agreed, something there is about approaching solstice light~

[BobDavid]

Russ is right about Colorado. The snow doesn't melt, it evaporates. This is the first winter I've experienced since moving away from Boston in 2003. After fourteen years in Florida, I'm enjoying winter in the high plains of Boulder County.

I'm no stranger to winter. I was born and raised in Omaha (eastern Nebraska), lived in Minneapolis for four years, and then Boston for 21. Boston winters are the worst: damp, cold, and grey. The lack of sunlight and short days drove me batty. I'd take winter in Minneapolis over Boston.

As for Colorado, the winter light is beautiful--mostly sunny.

[Alskoj]

As for Colorado, the winter light is beautiful--mostly sunny.

+1!