Winter Sunset

Many of the pieces I've come across bring me nostalgia for the environment I grew up in and this glass framed needlepoint piece is no exception. 

Growing up in "the North", this piece specifically reminds me of those late afternoons in February or March. The 'warming' has begun. Formally frozen rivers thaw into fast moving water. Some of the dressings the trees shed in the fall start to return. The sun sticks around a little bit longer, everyday. Eventually you get these gorgeous 6:30PM sunsets, right around the time the news would switch from the local broadcast to the national broadcast and we'd start hearing more about foreign conflicts rather than snowmobile accidents. 

While the buildings at the end of this river don't really depict the buildings I remember growing up around (the north is far from as idealistic as we want it to be) everything else is pretty spot on. The sunsets, although sometimes lacking the wide colour spectrum those deep summer sunsets bring, have an extra secret weapon you often only find ocean or lakeside. The reflectivity off the snow.

It's the same reason a sunset against the sprawling pavement of a Costco doesn't hit the same way. The "Vibes are off" as the kids might say. 

Winter Sunset, arguably, has those dream-like vibes for days.