| 25 Nov 2007 | Anne Wipf | Sad! I don’t really like your vision of winter. Nice picture, nevertheless. I like it, except for the sadness...  Natalia Nikitin replies: "Well, it never had claim to be ’the’ vision of winter, nor even the only wision of it I have, but this is what I had at the time. Thanks for commenting, even if you don’t like it so much." | |
| 5 Dec 2007 | Michael pixie john | Stark and bleak
like a wilderness terrain
love the watercolour sky
she’s sleeping though
and will wake again in spring
and have many faerie visitors
she may even wake and say hi to some winter ones  Natalia Nikitin replies: "Thank you for a lovely comment. " | |
| 19 Jan 2008 | Poppyseed | is she spring?
 Natalia Nikitin replies: "You just gave me an idea for a ’sequel’. " | |
| 14 Mar 2008 | Natalie Adams | sleeping...can’t you see it? the tiny, steady glow of life reborn, just below her chin?  Natalia Nikitin replies: "I should hope so. I’m hoping to replace this picture soon with one of ’Spring’, if I can only get around to painting it. " | |
| 27 May 2008 | Dragomir Cristian Madalin | this is great and very profound love tree and comedy profound feelings of harmony remembering the days of past give birth to the tree at last  Natalia Nikitin replies: "[Spring]
Thanks. I suppose all seasons are dreamlike in their own way, and spring is no exception. " | |