How sad it makes one feel to sit down quietly and think of the flight of the old year, and the unceremonious obtrusion of the new year upon our notice! How many things we have omitted to do which might have cheered a human heart, or whispered hope in the ear of the sorrowful, and how many things have we done over which the dark mantle of regret will ever fall!
—Emily Dickinson, from a letter, January 1846 (via litverve)
Street in London, Vilhelm Hammershoi (1906)
Firmin Baes (1874 - 1943) The Fireworks, 1937
Christiane Pflug, (1936-1972) Kitchen Door with Ursula, 1966
Markus Matthias Krüger (1981 - ) Great forest under snow, 2009
“country home in the winter”, by Norman Engel