Looking for new words for snow and winter, I went to my trusty writer's thesaurus. I learned a new word today . . . hibernal = relating to winter. So my pictures today are hibernal. From the Latin hibernalis, related to the Greek hiem . . . snow. Which is funny because you think of hibernating as meaning to sleep, burrow away; when it has more to do with winter. Oh, the twists and turns, the word roots, meanings, and connotations of the English language. Maybe tomorrow I'll do some more thesaurus diving. To find some new words for cold and freezing. Because according to the weather forecasters, that is what we will be expecting on the farm tomorrow.
No comments:
Post a Comment