The landscape recedes in New England this time of year. Winter has arrived and a landscape that was swollen with mass and depth and striking color – particularly in its last blast – shrink to silhouette. But one of the beauties of our climate is that at the exact time the winter solstice occurs, it…
Monthly Archives: January 2011
The Remains of the Day
In many ways observing the landscape of any new year in New England is like staring at a film negative…like so long ago when there were actually such things as film negatives. Although our gardens are stripped bare of leafy foliage and flower what remains is an essential exhibit of texture, form and space. In…