Wednesday, 25 January 2012

first snow

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first snow--
great luck to be here
in my own hut


Bashō
(tr. by David Landis Barnhill)





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  1. Roxana26 January 2012 at 00:38

    today we had the first snow this winter! i had been longing for it all this time (sorry, i know there are snow-haters among the Bridge readers :-)
    so i felt i had to share these fresh images with you.

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  2. Anonymous26 January 2012 at 01:31

    hello my beautiful friend,congratulations on the first snow fall.It is soft like your words and ways.
    Ah these images are so wonderful. they open like panels of enchantment in my heart.
    I love the first snowfall also.It is as if the first snowfall covers our mundane existence with an enchanted world.

    Your images are so enchanting that I imagine the snowflakes falling in a symphony of colour-the way it colours my heart.
    It reminds me of the verse that I wrote for kids-little snowflake rap and it is tapping at my window now.

    sending you snow kisses, yes finally!

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  3. mythopolis26 January 2012 at 01:47

    Delicious! Things get quiet when the snow starts falling. Everything softens. On a snowy day I can both hear and see my breath.

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  4. Michael T Stowers26 January 2012 at 01:54

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  5. Anonymous26 January 2012 at 05:15

    Is it The Snow that never drifts?
    The transient, fragrant snow
    That comes a single time a Year...

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  6. Harnett-Hargrove26 January 2012 at 15:00

    Texture. Everywhere. Beautiful. -J

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  7. :: Karine ::26 January 2012 at 15:52

    décidément je n'aime pas trop l'hiver ! tout a l'air si triste ^^
    je suis faite pour le soleil, le ciel bleu et les couleurs :-)
    des bisous belle roxana

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  8. Miriam26 January 2012 at 17:46

    da,toata bucuria iernii,acolo.cu melancolia ei,cu aplecarea,cu nevoia,concomitent,de nuante vii,cu felul in care granulatia materiei iese in evidenta pe alb,in alb.
    fiecare ramura tine pe bratele ei o taina si fiintele par pierdute, in ceea ce imensitatea a cazut de acord sa ne acorde,o clipa.

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  9. Lynne with an e26 January 2012 at 20:53

    Oh that first picture is so cold and gritty and starkly icy. For me, that is what winter really feels like. Harsh. But then, the next two images play the graphically linear shapes of the manmade against the organic flow of Nature,in the gracefully bowing branches and softly falling flakes. It's the third picture that completely captures me in its movement and stillness, its softened hues, its timelessness. Oh yes, I am not a lover of snow, but I can appreciate its beauty...especially from this distance, in my mother's hut.

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  10. Prospero26 January 2012 at 23:13

    The snow, with the condescending attitude of an aging film critic, arrives fashionably late, a rather noiseless affair meant to torment motorists who slip and slide squeamishly--all to the absolute delight of red bonneted children who, standing arms akimbo, their humid breaths smokily curled like a helix, watch with snickering awe.

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  11. A l a i n 28 January 2012 at 04:29

    sa tombe beaucoup chez toi Roxana, la lumière peneete encore un peut, nous sommes entre les mains de cette neuneu

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  12. Plum'28 January 2012 at 11:51

    La première neige est un moment magique...Bises Roxana

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  13. Anonymous28 January 2012 at 12:44

    im ersten Bild der Hund, der Freund (...) und es scheint, er steht vor einer tiefen Schlucht, das der Fotografie einen geheimnisvollen, ausserweltlichen Charakter verleiht.
    Im zweiten Bild ensteht ein gewisser Friede, dann das dritte Foto, es steht für mich für die vollkommene Harmonie mit der Natur und der Baum, so nahe am Menschen, erscheint in seiner ganzen Herrlichkeit.
    Dazu die einfachen und wundervollen Worte von Basho, die Ruhe und Zufriedenheit - Gleichmut vermitteln.
    ... wunderschön!
    Dir ein Lächeln, strahlender Stern und liebste Grüsse!
    Renée

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  14. Stickup Artist28 January 2012 at 18:44

    I love the snow so cannot imagine a snow-hater. (Perhaps because I don't have to live in it but drive up to it in the mountains and descend back to a warm valley when I've had my fill). Your images have so much unexpected warmth for such a cold climate! I love them all for different reasons but the second one I find to be really quite exquisite.

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  15. James Owens28 January 2012 at 22:08

    first snow!! the hour when the sky breathes differently, the mouth of the sky blows childhood over the city (for it never snows now, at least not on the first day, but always then...

    the photos are lovely, these complicated trees arguing for life against the flat geometry of the buildings (but even the buildings are beautiful today, anyway :-)

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  16. Roxana1 February 2012 at 21:15

    thank you, dear friends, for having accepted to lose yourselves in the beauty of snow for a few minutes and to forget about the specific inconveniences (for example we have -20 now here, -32.5 in one depression in the Carpathian mountains, it is becoming a problem to many people). and indeed, i think i like to photograph snow in colourful ways, not the typical white ones, i find colour much more challenging when it comes to snow (that doesn't mean that b/w is not gorgeous sui generis).

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  17. Marion McCready2 February 2012 at 00:26

    It sure is a cold blast over Europe, I can't complain here in our measly -3. Beautiful pics, such a sadness in the spindly branches, even the tree looks cold! Hope you're keeping well and warm! x

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  18. Unknown2 February 2012 at 01:02

    Where I live it never snows, until the waves foam, so I love snow. I remember the first time I touched snow and thought of those who touch the ocean as adults.

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  19. Lydia8 February 2012 at 23:34

    I hope it won't be the last snow of this winter for you. We have had the mildest, weirdest winter so far...less rain than usual, one timid snow that melted immediately, no ice and wind. The iris and daffodils are beginning to pop up. I find it all very disconcerting.

    These are so special, with number three absorbing me into it.

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  20. Ffflaneur12 February 2012 at 13:36

    ah Roxana, such searing winter pictures!
    the haphazardness of snow, upsetting the urban order

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