Thursday, January 4, 2024

Bare Beauty


You were expecting something else?


As always, I am enchanted by the skeleton shapes of trees against the winter sky.


And as I was taking these pictures, I challenged myself to avoid the descriptive words that leaped into my mind. No inky tracery or etched on a steely sky. Overused.


Which leaves me wordless.


 

7 comments:

Barbara Rogers said...

Me too. When a writer like yourself is wordless, how can I approach with my mundane appreciation? YES.

Teddy said...

I too, am awed by the bare grandeur.

Anvilcloud said...

I have a tree like that coming up sometime in my series. I quite like it. And that's the bare fact.

Sandra Parshall said...

I don't see any squirrel nests in those branches. Where do all your squirrels live? We see their nests in almost all the deciduous trees here in winter.

Vicki Lane said...

I suspect our squirrels choose trees that are less exposed. Back in the woods rather than on ridgelines. I do see squirrel nest here and there but they have a lot of woods to choose from.

KarenB said...

I love the stark monochromatic beauty of winter

Gwen said...

My favorite is when the trees appear black against the fiery winter sunsets.