Detail of Candlemas
 

Candlemas — a prayer carpet

 

February 2 was an early European holiday celebrating the first quickening of spring. Here one can sit in the snow among the shadows of the dried berry bushes and watch the sun on the horizon reflected on the river where the ice is breaking up.

 

©1980 Stanley Bulbach, All Rights Reserved
Photo: ©2012 Stanley Bulbach

 

 

 

Detail of Candlemas

Detail:  Candlemas