Wednesday greetings, collectors! NYC is brisk and bright today, the first day that calls for a proper coat and scarf and hat and gloves. A few short weeks of this weather, the kind that makes you scrunch your shoulders up to cover your too cold ears, and we'll all be wishing for a little warmth and greenery. For now though, it's kind of nice — festivity is in the air as people are stopping in the street to chat about Thanksgiving menus, and the snap of the climate is appropriate for the season. (It also ensures that we needn't stop and chat for too long.) Ollie's frisky too; that fur coat of hers keeps her toasty and suddenly there are loads of leaves to snuffle through.

Today's photography editions, Untitled, Swamp #1and Untitled, Swamp #2 are our second set of prints from Dorthe Alstrup, one of the many talented Hot Shots who've done editions with us. Her first pair of images, Max and Arika, have an obvious narrative thrust, what with the balloons and the children and all, but Dorthe's landscapes are also bursting with narrative potential.

This particular duo sent me off in search of a fitting poetic accompaniment. I didn't need to look too far, or long, before finding the perfect match: Robert Frost's poem, The Wood-Pile. Here's how it starts:

Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day,
I paused and said, 'I will turn back from here.
No, I will go on farther—and we shall see.'
The hard snow held me, save where now and then
One foot went through. The view was all in lines
Straight up and down of tall slim trees
Too much alike to mark or name a place by
So as to say for certain I was here
Or somewhere else: I was just far from home.

You can (and should!) read the complete poem on The Poetry Foundation's website.

That's it for the week, but you'll be seeing me again sooner than usual. With next week being shortened by Thanksgiving, we'd hate for those spending their Wednesdays in planes, trains and/or automobiles to miss out! So look for fresh editions, and some other 20x200 news of note, on Monday and Tuesday.