The beauty of Winter

Winter evoke dissonant feelings. It's, dark,cold and miserable but at the same time, beautiful, and enchanted. The landscape is a mixture of few colors: white, gray and dark blue, the trees are showing their skeletons and the ground is covered by a white carpet. Everything seems to be in a latent state, animals, plants, even objects. All around is quite and in calm.

Now the word  "hibernation" has more sense to me,  this landscape is just perfect to sleep and keep your body warm.

I took some pictures last winter, here in Groningen, last year Groningen was the only province in the Netherlands with snow, and the whole city has this wonderful landscape almost for a week.

To experience seasons in temperate latitudes, made me realize the fantastic differences between the switch of seasons... from winter to spring, spring to summer and fall to winter. Every season is beautiful in its own way, and every time we are talking about the next one.

But winter has a different appeal  that make me enjoy and feel cold as and ice cube.

Do I love winter? Well maybe I am crazy but yes, I do love winter! it makes me feel in a different world in physical and emotional way. The solitude and the silence (here in Groningen) is in some way enjoyable. Maybe for a while winter can be fun or I am just a crazy cold lover, but definitely is something that you have to experience at least once in life.

Who knows, maybe after a couple of winters I will decide to migrate to the tropics for a while.