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Mildred, Mother of Snow

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Medium: Ink and graphite on Arches paper, mounted to birch panel, varnished

Dimensions: 8" x 8"

Long Island, New York

The Story:
He had put his shirt on inside out and backwards, following along closely when his older sister had told him that this was the way to get a snow day. Children all around the town were following similar methods and traditions, all with the common goal of getting to spend a day at home building snowmen. Little did the children know, this was all pointless until Mildred came to town.
Mildred, an ancient snowy owl, had followed the same route every year as the temperature dropped. Until she passed through a town on her annual journey, there would be no snow there. She would live out her winter enjoying the sea breeze on Nantucket Island; there she would rest, always with a smile spread across her face as the snow began to fall around her. Before making it to her winter home, however, she would always allow herself one full day at the Owls Head Lighthouse in Maine. During this time of year it was almost always empty, which she loved. When she landed beside the lighthouse, she would watch as countless beautiful snowflakes began to float down, shimmering like stars in the light from the fresnel lens.
If you had asked her why she brought the snow with her wherever she went, she would have given you a strange look. With a smile, she would have responded with something like, “Why is the sky blue?”

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