"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape . . . "

"I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there. I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show."

Andrew Wyeth,
American Painter

Photo: Boulder on the shore of the Poudre River, with Bellvue Dome in the background, Bellvue, CO, December 25, 2014

In winter, you can feel the bone structure of the landscape.

"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure in the landscape - the loneliness of it - the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it - the whole story doesn't show."

Andrew Wyeth,
American painter

Photo: Aspen trees in the snow, with Long's Peak in the background; Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; November 22, 2013

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In winter, we get the sense that something under the snow is waiting.

"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure in the landscape - the loneliness of it - the dead feeling of winter.  Something waits beneath it - the whole story doesn't show."

Andrew Wyeth,
American painter

Photo: Sculptured snow, Engelmann spruce trees, and the Diamond Peaks; Montgomery Pass, Medicine Bow Mountains, CO; March 2, 2013