Makes you love winter, at least for a few minutes

A gorgeous morning on the estuary in Rowayton, Conn., on Jan. 30 after the beautiful if inconvenient snowstorm the day before.

— Photo by Hilary Cosell

What you would have missed

In downtown Darien.

“This is the day. You might have died

And never seen Rowayton in the rain,

Or morning glories bloom in Darien.

This is the day you might have died.’’

Dick Allen (1939-2017) , in his poem “On the New Haven Line’’

We've got your back

"Then III" (mezzotint print), by Cleo Wilkinson, in the "Footprint International Exhibition 2018,'' at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, Conn.,, through Aug. 26.  The show showcases the current trends in printmaking within one square foot configuration.

A view of a couple of the more than two dozen islands off Norwalk, which is a mostly affluent New York City suburb on Long Island Sound. The  quaint village of Rowayton may be the most interesting section. It's very pretty and has long attracted as residents many writers and painters. But it's  now overdeveloped along the shore. That piled up the damage in Hurricane Sandy, in 2012, and the construction of waterfront McMansions has not ceased since then.