Winter colors are always so soft and muted.  They lend no warmth to the land…none.

While the colors of summer blaze forth and simmer in intense bold shades of red, orange and purple

Springs hues are all fresh and new…the new green of leaves as they unfurl, the sprigs of bright green grass showing up among the dry shades of winter brown,Fall’s golden flames shine forth from the brilliant trees to the bright blue of the sky

But winter…pale and cold and frigid.

Surrounds everything in the color and feel of snow

Wind relentless in its fury picks up the snow and flings it burning and biting into anything it touches

The colors of winter…blue, lavender, pink and white.  The colors of silence, of waiting, of hunkering down, resting….

Your friend on a very frozen farm in western Colorado,

Linda