New York Winter - Central Park Snow
By Vivienne Gucwa
There is something
undeniably magical that occurs
as the snow falls
swirling and twirling in the air until
it hits the ground heavy with the weight of a thousand promises:
exultations and dreams held close to the earth
in the stillness between wintry pauses
like a snowglobe resting between giddy shakes of joy.
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Bow Bridge is one of Central Park’s most iconic structures. It was built between 1859 and 1862 and is shaped like an archer's bow. This particular image was taken during a snowstorm in Central Park, New York City. Bow Bridge sits covered by a beautiful layer of freshly fallen snow as the buildings that line Central Park West sit in the distance just past the snow-laden trees.
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New York Winter - Snow Over the New York City Skyline
- By Vivienne Gucwa Snowflakes swirl over the skyscrapers and buildings: confetti from the sky blanketing the buildings and streets. And the world transforms into a giant snow-globe, if only for a brief moment. --- What's more magical than New York City in the snow (when it first falls, of course)? This winter cityscape view is of the skyscrapers of the New York City skyline in midtown Manhattan including the Chrysler Building, the MetLife Building and a barely visible 59th Street Bridge (also known as the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge). ---new york citynycmanhattannew york city skylinenyc skylinemanhattan skylinechrysler buildingmetlife buildingskyscrapersnyc skyscrapersnew york skyscrapersarchitecturecityscapeurban landscapecitycity photographyurbanurban photographynew york city photographynew york photographywintersnownew york winternyc wintermanhattan winternyc snownew york snowmanhattan snowcity snowcity winterurban winterchrysler building snowchrysler building winterwinter skylineskyline snowvivienne gucwaphotoblogphotography blogbeautifullandscapeprettysnow landscapewinter landscape
Central Park Winter Path
- By Vivienne Gucwa
I think back to days spent wrapped in the cold silence of freshly fallen snow in Central Park.
The labyrinth-like path leading from Shakespeare Garden lined by a wooden fence twists and turns in the snow winding its way under trees whose branches reach out to each other like eager arms awaiting the warmth of an embrace.
It’s on days like this when the sun rests longer than usual and winter’s essence seeps through every crack and crevice that the earth quivers a ghost shiver that rests in summer’s memory.
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This photo was taken during a major snowstorm in New York City. The rustic wooden fence rests on a four acre section of Central Park known as the Shakespeare Garden which is located in the west part of the park near 79th Street. On the 300th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death in 1916, this area was dedicated to Shakespeare and named. The plants and flowers that are found in this area are all mentioned in the works of the playwright and are also plants and flowers that are found in his garden in Starford-upon-Avon. There is even a white mulberry tree on this four acre plot of land that is said to have grown from a graft of a tree planted by Shakespeare himself in the 1600s.
While the paths that winds through Central Park's Shakespeare Garden is gorgeous in the warmer months of the year, it's absolutely stunning when snow has freshly fallen.
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Winter - Central Park- Through Winter Trees - New York City
- By Vivienne Gucwa
Summer's memories sit suspended like words caught in the throat of winter: stifled, muffled utterances barely able to escape in the form of speech.
But in the wide open expanse of dreams, words take flight as summer's memories break through the shards of branches conjuring up the outline of buildings and cityscapes on the condensation of winter's frozen breath.
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Central Park Winter - Poet's Walk - New York City
By Vivienne Gucwa
I love heavy snowfall and I found myself braving the super high wind gusts to wander around a mostly empty Central park during one particularly rambunctious blizzard. I don’t really recommend it and thinking back, it was a bit risky considering that the wind gusts were around 55 mph and higher. Wind gusts and trees don’t make for the safest of combinations. However, I have never seen Central Park in such a serene state.
The only people who were in the park that day were small amounts of people who lived in the surrounding neighborhoods, brave tourists and intrepid photographers with giddy expressions on their faces. I could probably count on both hands the number of people I encountered and I ended up covering most of the park on foot that day (I was never so happy to get home and drink hot chocolate that evening).
This part of Central Park is known as The Poet’s Walk or Literary Walk. The reason why this part of the park is known as Poet’s Walk and/or Literary Walk is because at the very end of this section, several statues of famous writers line the path. It’s at the southern end of a section called The Mall.
The Mall is only straight line in Central Park and the trees that line it are its crowning and most distinctive feature. They are American elm trees and are the largest and last remaining stands in all of North America. Over the years, other large grouping of American Elm trees have been destroyed by Dutch Elm disease but Central Park’s conservancy has saved a majority of the remaining trees in the park despite losing around 40 trees in the last few years to this contagious fungus.
The Poet’s Walk is one of my favorite spots in the autumn and winter because the trees look their most graceful and beautiful during these seasons. The leaves turn a beautiful golden yellow in the autumn and the elegant branches seem to reach out to each other when covered by freshly fallen snow in the winter.
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The Sky's Tears of Joy - Angel of the Waters - Winter - Central Park
The silence that engulfs the world after a snowfall is deafening. All heartbeats, all footsteps, all meandering thoughts and evocations are wrapped in a heavy blanket of snow. Trees cease reaching for the sky, weighed down by the weight of the sky’s tears of joy and there is scarcely a breath to be heard. Winter muffles the earth silencing it’s yearnings, and all at once there is peace. ---new york citynycmanhattanviviennegucwaphotoblogphotography blogangel of the watersbethesda fountaincentral parkcentral park wintercentral park snownew york city snownew york winternyc winterangelfountaincentral park fountainwinter landscapesnow covered fountainangel of the waters in the snowbeautiful
In a trance - Central Park Winter Trees
- By Vivienne Gucwa Winter crunches underfoot yielding to the heavy enormity of the sheer weight of souls in transition. Trees laden with snow frozen in thought stand dormant until the springtime. It’s on these sorts of days that the earth feels as if it is caught in a trance somewhere between dreaming and opening its frozen eyelids. -- This is a view of a snow-covered path during a beautiful snowstorm in the heart of Central Park, New York City.new york citynycmanhattanviviennegucwaphotoblogphotography bloglandscapenaturewintersnowwinter landscapewinter treestreescentral park winterwinter pathbeautifulcentral parkclassic central park viewnew york city winternew york city snow
Serenity Memory - Bow Bridge in the Snow - Central Park
- By Vivienne Gucwa
I miss the snow.
I miss the silence: deafening silence punctuated by small breaths signifying flutters of life in a world swallowed by the sinking, seductive embrace of serenity.
That type of serenity isn’t easy to come by in a city that moves faster than the speed of hope: it’s frenetic core blinked into existence by anxious dreamers.
If I hold still, very still, for just a moment and close my eyes, I can paint my serenity memory on the backs of my eyelids.
In this moment the world stops rotating long enough and my breath reverberates alongside the earth’s heartbeat.
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This is a view of the classic Bow Bridge in the middle of a snowstorm during the winter in Central Park, New York City.new york citynycmanhattanviviennegucwaphotoblogphotography blogcitylandscapescenicclassic. beautifulnaturesnowwinterwinter landscapebow bridgebow bridge winterbow bridge snowcentral park wintercentral park snowcentral parkserenebridge
Deliquesce - San Remo - Central Park Winter
- By Vivienne Gucwa In the yawning hours of the morning, the earth stretches its snow-laden limbs skyward and the clouds leave a dissolving trail of heart-heavy whispers in their wake as all of the city’s structures deliquesce into nothingness. --- This is a view from the top of Belvedere Castle during a snowstorm overlooking the iconic towers of the San Remo during the winter in Central Park, New York City.new york citynycmanhattanviviennegucwaphotoblogphotography blogcityurbanlandscapecityscapescenicclassiccentral parkcentral park wintercentral park snowsnowwinterwinter landscapebeautifultreessnowy treessan remocentral park viewbelvedere castle view
Dream Sputters - Bow Bridge Central Park Winter
- By Vivienne Gucwa
In the silent stillness of winter the world stops rotating temporarily.
All sound, speech and thought is muffled as the earth slumbers briefly under a blanket of freshly fallen snow.
In each snowflake rest the hopes and dreams of all who have ever felt the warmth of an anticipatory heart-flutter: dream-sputters that wrap the earth in the weight of their desires.
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Built between 1859 and 1862, Bow Bridge is one of Central Park’s most iconic structures. Taken during a snowstorm in Central Park, New York City, the bridge is covered by a beautiful layer of freshly fallen snow and is surrounded by snow laden trees.central parkwintersnowlandscapewinter landscapenatureurbancitynew york citynyccentral park wintersan remobeautifulprettytrees