Land of the freezing
Added 2022-12-17 18:28:08 +0000 UTCSome say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire,
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great,
And would suffice.
Robert Frost
Comments
Thank you so much for this beautiful comment. I have to read this poem now! I am really touched by your wonderful description and I really don't know what to say. I couldn't be more happy than I am right now :)
Erinthul
2022-12-20 12:54:21 +0000 UTCThank you! I was mostly because of the wind :D
Erinthul
2022-12-20 12:51:21 +0000 UTCThank you! Yes, to take those photos I used 50mm :)
Erinthul
2022-12-20 12:50:53 +0000 UTCLovely photos! Inspiring as always. I must ask, is it a 50mm you're shooting with?
Skogshymn
2022-12-20 12:49:52 +0000 UTCStunning photos. I have never seen snow in person, so it is wonderful to witness the landscape in these photos. That Robert Frost poem is one of my favourites. Have you heard of a German author named Hermann Hesse? He died in 1962. He wrote many wonderful books, but your photos remind me of a story he wrote in the 1920's called 'Pictor's Metamorphoses'. You can read it here: https://essexmyth.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/pictors-metamorphoses.pdf The story is about a man who walks into a natural paradise and wants to become part of nature. He is given this miracle and turns into a tree. But something is missing, he is not transforming and evolving like the flowers and butterflies he sees around him, he is stuck as this unchanging tree that just grows old. Then, one day he sees a beautiful woman walk into the garden, and he wants to reach out and communicate with her, but he is stuck as this mute old tree. The woman looks around the garden and senses something in this tree, "the tree seemed lonely and sad, and yet beautiful, touching and noble in its mute sorrow". She too is given the miracle of changing into nature, so she chooses to becomes one with this tree. Suddenly, the tree contains both the man and the woman, and in this moment it begins to evolve new branches, new leaves, achieving "eternal transformation. The stream of continuing creation flowed" through their blood. That's what I thought about when I saw the photo of you leaning against the tree, sensing something within it, moments away from becoming one with nature and starting a chain reaction of new life.
C. Smith
2022-12-17 20:28:52 +0000 UTCBeautiful. You must have been freezing
Steven Niehaus
2022-12-17 18:35:13 +0000 UTC
