Plenty of Nothing

Snowy Aomori

Aomori Prefecture is one of the snowiest places in the world. Source.

Ottawa Snowshoers

Bytown Museum. Source.

Helen Creighton Snowshoeing, Part 2

[These are Jeffie and Lillian Owen. Creighton is the photographer.]

Nova Scotia Archives. Part One.

Outer Office

Winter in Flanders (1928)

Winter in Flanders (1928) by Valerius De Saedeleer.

Bijin as Meng Zong

From Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety by Harunobu. Mitate.

Large Flakes of Snow

Large Flakes of Snow, by Uemura Shōen. Part of an exhibit at the Yamatane Museum of Art last spring.

Japanese Switzerland

Japanese Switzerland by John Lavery, painted after his visit to Wengen, Switzerland, Christmas 1912. The vertical format of the painting, and the bijin-like posture of the woman, both suggest ukiyo-e. Source.

Ovid in Tomis and Sulmo

Ovid Square in the city of Constanta, Romania, features a statue of Ovid, the author of Metamorphoses, who was exiled to the Black Sea coast by the Emperor Augustus in AD 8. Constanta was named Tomis in those days. Source.

A copy of the same statue stands in Sulmona, Abruzzo, Ovid's home town. Source.

We tend to think of Ovid's place of exile as an Arctic waste, but this picture is from Italy. Source.

Okuyama Gihachiro

Suburbs of Yamagata by Okuyama Gihachiro.