Carrie’s Painting of the Week – 12/8/09
First Snow, Mohonk Mountain Road
By Carrie Jacobson
As Saturday afternoon waxed into Saturday evening, the first snow of the year spun down from the sky and fell, flakes huge and sticky in the 33-degree dusk, and then, overnight, piled on limbs and lawns and the soft branches of fir trees.
In the morning, clouds and sky and snow and fields laced together in a swirl of white, and I painted wildly, working quickly in the cold and the wind, to capture what the sunlight would destroy.
I know that, soon enough, I will be tired of snow and winter and the broad reaches of white – but now, I am hungry for them, for the way they uncomplicate everything, and tie it all together.
This farm stands near the Mohonk Mountain House, just past a tremendous curve in the road. Horses grazed in the fields, finding grass beneath the morning’s snow. Only a few cars passed. The morning sparkled.
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