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| As evening comes on in the north woods, perspective diminishes. spruce trees and alder bushes slip back into the shadows as the poplar, and paper birch reassert their towering primordial presence all around. |
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| "In the gloaming." traces back to the Old English glōm, meaning “twilight,” which shares an ancestor with the Old English glōwan, meaning “to glow.” In the early 1800s, English speakers looked to Scotland and borrowed the now-archaic verb gloam, meaning “to become dusk” or “to grow dark.” And aye, it has, from the shadows up. |
Exquisite fragment of day
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ReplyDeleteIt’s called The Middle of Nowhere, which is how we like it.
"Middle of Nowhere" begs two questions: 1) If it can be assumed that Nowhere is a place, it is probably everywhere and therefore does not have a middle. Anahey? (That's a Wisconsin ism for "Is that not so?") 2) If there is a middle, what does the surrounding landscape look like? A final observation: Yes, we residents like it th
Deletewow...beautiful!
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