The light fades outside my windows.

窗外的光渐渐淡去。

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As I sit down to start this preface for the debut of "On Departing Yunnan", snow falls heavily outside my Windows.

落笔为今年的首展《出云南记》作序时，窗外正是大雪纷飞。

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It was snowing heavily outside my Windows when I began to write this preface for the debut of "On Departing Yunnan".

落笔为今年的首展《出云南记》作序时，窗外正是大雪纷飞。

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The foghorn on the Mendocino headlands moaned through the night like a lovelorn elk, the only clue to what lay outside my windows at the Albion River Inn.

FORBES: Days of Wine and Redwoods