Fair Haven Pond is now open, and there is no snow. It is a beautiful, almost Indian-summer, afternoon, though the air is more pure and glassy. The shrub oak fire burns briskly as seen from the Cliffs. The evergreens are greener than ever. I notice the row of dwarf willows advanced into the water in Fair Haven, three or four rods from the dry land, just at the lowest water-mark. You can get no disease but cold in such an atmosphere.
Though the sun is now an hour high, there is a peculiar bright light on the pines and on their stems. The lichens on their bark reflect it. In the horizon I see a succession of the brows of hills, bare or covered with wood,— look over the eyebrows of the recumbent earth. These are separated by long valleys filled with vapory haze.
If there is a little more warmth than usual at this season, then the beautiful air which belongs to winter is perceived and appreciated.
2 comments:
I've seen that light...
but I take my natural scenes in increments as though they're doled out sparingly at some mission kitchen...appetizing still, the more bittersweet to savor.
I live in the city.
nature provides us with everything from food to beauty, and as we are part of nature friends and love come from it as well.
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