Wind directly from the north. When the wind is in the north, it brings with it a something fairytale-like. It stirs the imagination more than any other wind. We think we feel the touch of ice-dew in it. It takes a north wind to clear the sky & our eyes of dust. On such a day we feel that the Norsemen started out to sail the seas. We see in our eye a blue sea & sky, white choppy waves with white clouds to match…
There is a suggestion of the bluegreen coolness of icebergs in it, or finely sifting snow, of ice-huts, of a starry sky arching a cold white northern snow desert, of green waves frothing at the ragged edge of a hole in an ice-meadow, of wet snow falling to annihilation in a dark sea, of polar bears bending backs against wind & sleet —one expects at any moment to see Aurora Borealis itself against the horizon….
Charles Burchfield, July 28, 1914