now winter comes slowly

A tumblr for the turn of the year. Here you'll find things evocative of winter, northernness (in the C.S. Lewis sense, if not always the strictly geographical one), frost and festivals for the darkest time of the year, from vintage illustration to woodcuts and photography. It's a companion to my autumn blog at the-october-country. I'm back to using my old cloudsinvenice account to admin both seasonal blogs, and you can always message me there if you need to get in touch.

[strawberrydykke]

opened up ravelry to look at patterns and the very first thing i saw was

The Garment by Robert Cole

[littlebirdinagarden]

I had to immediately look for myself and I feel like this post needs the addition of the very first line in the pattern description

[have-you-been-here]

Sapporo Snow Festival, Sapporo, Japan

Have you been here?

I have been here

I have not been here

Voting ended onJun 10

[miraclerizuin]

I missed voting in this one T_T

Gudetama, 2017

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[famousfishathletecookie]

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[doubtsandloves]

Vilhelms Purvītis (Latvian, 1872-1945) - Spring Landscape, 1904

[miraclerizuin]

Love is:

the child of an endless war

an open wound still raw

a shameless banner unfurled

an explosion

a fire at the end of the world

a violent star

a tide of destruction

an angry scar

a violation, a mutilation, capitulation

annihilation

Voting ended onJan 10

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[elegyforadream]

[unpoco-blog]

Mary, Russia, by Claudio Oliverio (by CLAUDIOOLIVERIO.COM)

[now-winter-comes-slowly]

On This Bit of Soiled Sadness...

by Nakahara Chūya, translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles

On this bit of soiled sadness

The flurries fall again today

Through this bit of soiled sadness

The wind blows again today

This bit of soiled sadness

Not unlike a foxling’s fur

This bit of soiled sadness

Catches snow, huddles and curls

This bit of soiled sadness

Has neither wishes nor desire

This bit of soiled sadness

Dreams of death in languor

This bit of soiled sadness

Tragic, it strikes me with fright

This bit of soiled sadness

Helpless, enveloped by night ...

[wonderlartcafe]

Artist: Kawase Hasui Title:Kaga in Snow Date:Ca. 1930s.

[coolthingsguyslike]

[winterlooking]

toronto

[belbar74]

[tokyostreetphoto]

Dark Gate, Kichijoji 吉祥寺

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Happy Groundhog Day! | Mystic Stamp Discovery Center

On February 2, 1887, the first official Groundhog Day event was held in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.  However, the tradition dates back much

This is fascinating - I knew that Groundhog Day was essentially a US version of Candlemas, but I didn't know that the tradition of using an animal to predict an early or late spring also went back to Europe...