FOR SALE: “Long Shadows” (Pencil and pastel, & drybrush. 2026. $200. Please email dterrydraw@aol.com or pm if interesed in purchase)
I first met Newby in 1984, and she came to be one of my dearest friends over the next 38 years. I stayed at her big,1850, strikingly un-modernized house in Charlottesville many times over the decades…..short and prolonged (two to six weeks) visits…..and, yes, it quickly became a sort of second-home to me, and it remained so over the years..
I can never hear this song (sung here by the inimitable Maddy Prior) without thinking of Newby.
Go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6ctF_8ER48…
“When long shadows fall and dwarf the trees at evening
When white winter light burnishes the streams
Then I will bring you a coat of soft lambs wool
To keep your back from the keen northern wind.
When snow shames the sheep that huddle to the leeward
When snowdrops peep from darkness unfurled
Then I will bring you boots with fur linings
To keep your feet dry as you walk o’er the world.
When home becomes a prison and snowdrifts lock the door
When February Fildyke drenches the moor
When black rain freezes and whips at your hand
Then I will bring you a carriage with wheels of wind
To take you away from this barren land.”
