The Creative Joy of a Cold, Dead Winter Val McDermid’s new book evokes an earlier Scot’s love of the bleak.

"Winter trees were a poetic lodestar for Burns"

'Ev’n winter bleak has charms to me,
When winds rave thro’ the naked tree;
Or frosts on hills of Ochiltree
Are hoary gray;
Or blinding drifts wild-furious flee,
Dark’ning the day!'

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“Untitled (Landscape).” Henry Farrer (American; 1843–1903). Watercolor, n.d. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California.

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