Happy 1st day of Winter.....
The number one '' looked up' word for the year 2010 on Merriam -Webster's online dictionary tool is...
austerity.
Definition of AUSTERITY
1
: the quality or state of being austere
2
a : an austere act, manner, or attitude
b : an ascetic practice
3
: enforced or extreme economy
runners up,
Moratorium and Shellac
hmm.
Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Chat au Clair de Lune, c. 1900
Winter, 1945 by Andrew Wyeth
"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure in the landscape — the loneliness of it — the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show-Andrew Wyeth
Winter Is Coming Dear Riding Hood by Daria Kudla
Napolina and the Winter Arrows by Darla Teagarden
Archer Napolina and Her Snow Chariot Roosters...
Emily Dickinson
There’s a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons —
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes —
Heavenly Hurt, it gives us —
We can find no scar,
But internal difference,
Where the Meanings, are —
None may teach it — Any —
’Tis the Seal Despair —
An imperial affliction
Sent us of the Air —
When it comes, the Landscape listens —
Shadows — hold their breath —
When it goes, ’tis like the Distance
On the look of Death —
