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Have you heard of it? The Pale Season? I heard it said years ago and it has stuck with me. A long-time Eastern Shore resident once described winter that way and if you stop and look around, it makes sense. Â
Pale can mean bland but that’s not what I see. I see a new version of a beloved and familiar landscape. The water gives us different shades of blue and green. If you take a long look at the gray winter sky, it’s not really gray at all. White and pink and yellow with patches of blue give a perfect backdrop to the beautiful winter scape our trees put forth. I see the perfect architecture of crowning treetops in the distance. Or up close, the black and brown branches seems to almost come alive again in their dormancy – twisting and turning and telling a story that is lost among the leaves in other seasons.
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The magnificence of old tree trunks suddenly comes into focus. Gnarled or stretched tall and thin, they are sculptural and endlessly different and perfect.  Taking a wider view, I see marshes and rivers and the bay shoreline with speckles of green in mostly brown and gold marsh grass. These are beautiful moments to experience on a trail, or from a front porch window. We just need to know when it’s time to stop and look. And breathe. Â