BEAUTY: Photography--Linda Westin

Stockholm-based photographer Linda Westin took a detour into science and obtained a PhD in neuroscience, specializing in super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, a technique that allows scientists to illuminate the structures inside cells by making them glow under specific wavelengths. She now uses this same idea to photograph trees and plants in dense natural settings. Her work is startling and enigmatic, and her images play as though they are illustrations from fairytale stories about magical forests full of night time intrigue and possible dangers ... Where The Wild Things Might Be ...

https://www.instagram.com/_cometalktome_/

BEAUTY: Painting For Winter--Misc. Artists

Top to bottom: Sean William Randall, Light Flight; Sergei Danchev, In The Winter Forest; Serhii Kachin, untitled cabin in snow; Vasily Khudyakov, February Lace; Waldemar Fink, Evening in Adelboden; Wilf Perreault, Moonlit Glow; William Hays, First Snow; William Victor Higgins, Snow; Yu Chengyou, Snowy Mountains and Blue Lake; ZZ Wei, Winter White

Let's Go For A Walk In The Woods

Winter at the Cabin 2025

I'll be spending the holidays at the cabin, as usual--if you need me, call the general store in town and have Sam drive his pick-up out to get me because there's no phone at the cabin and no cell reception.

BEAUTY: Painting For Winter--Chris Long

For winter, here are the exquisite snow scenes of artist Chris Long...I love how he uses many colors to capture the sense of snow. Gorgeous...

Top to bottom: Clear and Cold, 4PM; Cold Sunset; From Afar; Snow, 1AM; Midnight; Southern Colorado #36; Sunrise Near Stowe, VT #4; Winter Backyard Oaks III

https://www.chrislongpainter.com/