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Wintry Landscape
Wintry Landscape Columbia Gorge...wild wintry landscape Seems like a painting in which to escape Snow lined trees and crystalline waterfalls Deep chasms etch canyon cathedrals Blue grey ice icicles hang like jewels Or as dangerous daggers or tools Snowy white, black, taupe and grey Ravens plying skies and birds of prey Watch a cold river closely for fish To catch mighty salmon is their wish A lone blue heron sits by the shore Hoping this still backwater offers more Craggy oak trees lend cover for rest To small creatures in burrows and nests Big horn sheep tracks in cold...
Shiroi ki
'Shiroi ki' translates to the words white trees in Japanese. The following is a poem that fits the feeling I am trying to convey to the viewer....." Wrapped in a blanket against the cold night. Like a paper-wasps' nest in a black-and-white birch tree dusted with snow;Like the wick of a hundred-times-dipped beeswax candle, awaiting the flame." ~Unknown