{"id":10268,"date":"2019-01-11T17:50:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T17:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=10268"},"modified":"2019-01-11T17:50:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T17:50:46","slug":"the-color-of-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/11\/the-color-of-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Color Of Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10269\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10269\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10269\" src=\"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/sketchbook1-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leslie Rego, \u201cA Crimson World,\u201d watercolor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p2\">A bit before eight o\u2019clock in the morning and the sky is magenta. Streaks of color are shooting upwards. There is a sliver of moon still showing. Venus is bright just below the curve of the crescent. The moon goes from stark white to a gentle pink, reflecting the colors in the sky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Early morning and the sky continues to be darker in value than the snowy landscape. Generally, the sky is the lightest value in a landscape, but with snow on the ground the values switch and the ground plane becomes lighter. Snow is a light and highly reflective surface. Because of its reflective quality, the color of snow is affected by the surrounding colors, most particularly the sky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">As the sky shifts into a darker and darker magenta, the snow comes alive, glistening crimson. Mounds of snow are glowing pink. Even the air seems to shimmer pink. It is as though I am looking through rose-colored glass. Day breaks. The sky goes from pink to blue. As this transition progresses, the color of snow mutates. The pink subsides and I begin to see violets that turn into shadowy blue. Subtle variations of warm and cool colors are instantly recorded in the snow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">The sun rises over the mountaintops. The snow turns a warm white. As the sun hits the snow, shades of yellow appear. On the shadowed sides of the mountains, the snow casts off purple-greys. Deep under the pine trees, the snow becomes a warm russet red, duplicating the warm tones of the bark. It seems like a white world out there, but a lot of subtle and not-so-subtle colors share the limelight. From one moment to the next snow can shift from yellow to pink, blue to russet, or from cold to warm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">What is the color of snow? For me early this morning it was an otherworldly crimson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><i>Leslie Rego is an Idaho Press Club award-winning columnist, artist and Blaine County resident. To view more of Rego\u2019s art, visit leslierego.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit before eight o\u2019clock in the morning and the sky is magenta. Streaks of color are shooting upwards. There is a sliver of moon still showing. Venus is bright just below the curve of the crescent. The moon goes from stark white to a gentle pink, reflecting the colors in the sky. Early morning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,36],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-commentary","8":"category-sketchbook-hiking","9":"category-slider"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}