Bleak Mid-Winter

If you live in the north, whether Manitoba, Minnesota, North Dakota, Sweden, Norway, etc... the bleak mid-winter is not really here yet. In some places, as the climate seems to be warmer and kind of strange, it might barely feel like winter has arrived. But in any case, this bleak part of winter usually arrives after Christmas it seems. Or late December on through February. Where it is cold and where there is snow, on many days the sky is the same color as the landscape. To me this is either depressing or a calming sort of solitude landscape. Depends on my mood probably, or if this kind of sky drags on or is accompanied by darkish grays or extreme cold. 

It is interesting that the colors in Gustavian decor are similar to the blues, whites, and grays of a daytime winter landscape... the time of day when you have light on the landscape, but not much color. This is the time of year when people want more light. Supposedly this is some part of the reasoning behind the light interiors or the light colors. But I do notice the cool colors that match the winter sky and landscape. It is a pretty palette, even if I personally want none of it in my house (I like slightly warmer colors and some blacks and dark browns, maybe more like a late fall palette overall with color accents). 

The first photo here has maybe a slight color saturation edit. I don't remember. But it might not, or is not much. The color of the sky and landscape would be the same. In the second photo, I have created an edit that is more white to take out the blues, because the original photo looks like it has some kind of tinted photo edit. It does not. The original coloring is a lot of blues in the sky and the landscape. This is how the light was reflected that day. 

Winter Field Photograph on MysaArt - Etsy