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Picea glauca (Moench) Voss., the white spruce, [4] is a species of spruce native to the northern temperate and boreal forests in Canada and United States, North America.. Picea glauca is native from central Alaska all through the east, across western and southern/central Canada to the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland, Quebec, Ontario and south to Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin ...
Nancy Ekholm Burkert (born February 16, 1933) is an American artist and illustrator.Her most celebrated work is the picture book Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1972), which was a New York Times Notable Book and a Caldecott Honor Book (one runner-up for the Caldecott Medal).
Kahikatea is a coniferous tree reaching a height of 50–65 m (164–213 ft), making it the tallest New Zealand tree, [3] with a trunk 1–2 m (3.3–6.6 ft) through. It has a 600 year life span and gains maturity after between 250 and 450 years. [4] Near the base of the tree, the roots are typically buttressed and grooved.
Young stars resembling a Christmas tree aglow with lights and a sparkling snow globe take center stage in new images from NASA’s space telescopes.
During the Early Northern Renaissance and even more during Dutch Golden Age painting in the 17th century, interest in landscape painting was increasing. The winter of 1564–1565 was said to be the longest and most severe for more than a hundred years – the beginning of a cold period in northern Europe now called the Little Ice Age.
The first snow is falling in big, soft flakes —white, pure, and festive. I enter Arkady Alexandrovich’s studio, where he is working on a painting titled the First Snow. He paints quickly and freshly: the scene includes the porch of a village house, a tree covered in mossy snow, children, and a dog— thick, colorful, and vibrant spots on ...
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The painting depicts leafless trees in the winter snow, with the tops of two of the trees broken off and the third bent by the prevailing wind, giving the work a haunted, spectral air. It is a Romantic allegorical landscape, depicting a stone cairn or dolmen set amid three oak trees on a hilltop, with a contemplative melancholy mood. It was ...