Winter Forest Blue Sapphire & Diamond Ring, Yellow Gold

Christmas Day 2013. An ice storm several days before had coated much of Maine with a half inch blanket of ice. Wood stove cranking kept us warm. After the morning blizzard of presents we ventured outside, bundled against the cold for a walk in the woods.

The world dressed in ice under a cloudless bluebird sky with the sun glistening off thick coated limbs and red winter berries trapped in individual snow globes created a magical winter wonderland. We crunched and tromped through the backwoods, over streams and around heavy, bent branches.

There is a short lived window of great beauty after a winter storm, before the sun melts and the wind dusts the winter jacket off, before car exhaust darkens the fresh winter coat. The familiar becomes a peculiar variation of itself. The well-known backyard, forest path, or routine drive to work is transformed. You see from a fresh perspective and appreciate the beauty before you.

Deep blue sapphire center with icy white detail and snow-white diamonds among pierced-out petals make this ring a magical winter wonderland, a frozen forest after a snow storm.

Scroll down the page to see photos taken during that Christmas Day walk.