blackberry winter

Farmers and gardeners traditionally understood that dogwood winter, which falls around the same time as blackberry winter, signals the final frost.

Multiple Hayes winner Holly Twyford is one of several performers who earned two nominations; Twyford was named as a lead actress for the Caryl Churchill gender bender “Cloud 9” at Studio and for “Blackberry Winter” with Forum Theatre.

Steve Yockey’s new play, “Blackberry Winter,” doesn’t sugarcoat the situation, but it effectively humanizes what the disease can be like for patients and their loved ones.

The countertenor David Daniels was in his element both in a Gluck aria and Alec Wilder’s song “Blackberry Winter.”

If their arrival coincides with a cold snap, Washington experiences “blackberry winter,” with the flowers resembling snow clumped at the ends of blackberry canes, a reminder that spring always has the potential to regress to a season of zipped jackets and raised thermostats.