Fall in love with Amherst

Massachusetts

February 2022

“In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.” Laurence Sterne

Time for fun

The fall

Leaves grow old gracefully, bring such joy in their last lingering days. How vibrant and bright is their final flurry of life.
-Karen Gibbs

Sleepy Hallow

The Mount

The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home. In the Berkshires, New England, MA.

“Edith Wharton was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider’s knowledge of the upper class New York “aristocracy” to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her novel The Age of Innocence.”

Marblehead

Windows

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. 

Edith Wharton

Ianuarie

Sunset fire

“Durerea este focul purificator prin care orice suflet este indreptat de la pamant la cer.”

Vasile Parvan

The pain is the purifying fire through which every soul is guided from the earth to the sky.