Take Away the Leaves

I take a long 3.5 mile walk four days each week.  Walking is one of my essential "contemplative" practices.

In the winter months, I enjoy looking at the branches of the many leafless trees.  Spotting a bird's next in the bare branches is a delightful discovery. 

"The trees down the boulevard stand naked in thought,
Their abundant summery wordage silenced, caught
In the grim undertow; naked the trees confront
Implacable winter's long, cross-questioning brunt."
-  D. H. Lawrence, Winter in the Boulevard, 1916

"Of winter's lifeless world each tree
Now seems a perfect part;
Yet each one holds summer's secret
Deep down within its heart."
-   Charles G. Stater

January: Poems, Quotes, Lore

"It is more about You and Now, rather than Them and Back Then."
-  Pulling Onions