Red-tinged snow
No, not blood-stained, but a kind of lichen bringing the red of Snow White’s ruby mouth to the snow.
Source:...
Wind-washed air
Elsewhere I have commented on a 'rain-washed sky', and here, wind-washed air, both yielding clarity.
‘The wealth of biological detail...
As curious, as dangerous as…
It's a long time, probably decades, since I had a nightmare, but I remember having quite a few in childhood,...
Time as a hovering hawk
I am fascinated by perspectives of time, and here it’s memorably described as a rough-legged hawk, or, when it implodes,...
Sun-cured grasses
Somehow this evokes an image of a boundless prairie full of grazing bison. I learned from Lopez that the vast...
Oddly hinged
A beautiful way to remind us that all may not be as it seems. Oddly hinged is more interested than...
Fallen pieces of the moon
A haunting way to think of icebergs, moon-pieces fallen from the sky. Especially when lit at night by their mother-ship's...
Wind-slabbed snow
Crunching home through snow after a winter walk, we found ourselves on such wind-slabs, albeit more modest in scale, Swiss...
Frost-riven rubble
Rubble bespeaks a building site in a busy, messy, or war-torn city. The idea of its being splintered by frost...
Sun-bleached ribbons
Lopez’ book provides, among other things, a history of the exploration (and exploitation) of the Arctic, and what a ship...
Jade-green vegetation
An image of verdancy that doesn’t quite chime with our impressions of endless Arctic white and blue.
Source: Barry Lopez,...
Light-poor desert
Elsewhere I have highlighted Lopez’s use of desert images in an Arctic context. Here it’s used to refer to a...
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