10,000 Hits and Winter Grays

"Winter Grays"
Oil on Canvas 20" x 10"
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You've seen what our place looks like in the fall. In the winter, it is completely opposite. We sat our little house down right in the middle of the forest, daring the builders to cut unnecessarily even a single sapling. As a result, twenty-one years later, we can look out any window and see trees in every direction. From several of our windows, we can eve reach out and touch a tree. So there's plenty to study from during every season.

I like the light patterns and how they change from early morning through sundown. Sometimes they can be stunning, at other times they're almost undetectably subtle. All that within the winter grays is what I want to capture before the spring greens start appearing.

This little scene is at the edge of our property, alongside the road where the afternoon sun makes a direct hit. People talk about the dull, gray winters but the more I study our winter woods, the more colors and variations I see. Here, especially, the trees in the four o'clock sun were nothing short of amazing.

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In other news, during the past several hours, this blog hit the 10,000 hits milestone. I started blogging in February, 2008, not so long ago as blogging goes, so I feel like having received 10,000 hits is not bad for a newbie. Hopefully in another year, we can see those numbers multiply.

Thanks to all of you who've kept coming back as well as to those of you who are here for the first time.