Five Years Ago

"After the Big Snow," wc/ink on paper

This has been an oddly dry winter. Although we have had around a foot of snowfall, the ground outside my studio is bare and the temperature today will top sixty, Fahrenheit. Thinking about the current weather led me to look back at work from years past. To my surprise the majority show very snowy days in mid- to late February. Certainly that's not the case this year. 

This small sketch, like many done this time of year, including 2025, was done from a window in my home studio. Although it looks cold you can see spring coming in the warm ochres and faint rust colors of the distant trees. This was likely done in the morning a day or two after a heavy, wet snowfall.