Thursday Thoughts...

“I realise there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.”  

Jeffrey McDaniel

The honesty of trees in winter.

A tree's bareness, is perhaps like baring your soul. No foliage to cover or disguise or protect. All that there is, is there to be seen, is on show.

Or perhaps it's that they have shed things that no longer serve them. The letting go of leaves which enables them to retreat a bit for the winter, to tough it out without needing to worry about looking after leaves. 

I must admit I love looking at trees in winter - their shapes so lean and pared back; their essence there, but also simply a platform for the next step, the emergence, the return...

And somehow still offering shelter, respite and resting places for others..