I find the tiny beginnings of tree leaves to be just as beautiful as spring flowers. These are brand new leaves from two different oak trees.
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Nature’s first green
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold,
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
– Robert Frost
These are new leaves (and flowers) of a boxelder tree.
Young lilac leaves
It sure is refreshing seeing some green out there, even if you have to look close to find it.
Pine needles
On the path to spring
Tall pines in monochrome
If trees could talk
If trees could talk, what wonderful stories would this beautiful old cottonwood have to tell us? Seen along the U.W. Lakeshore Preserve.
Keep looking up
My advice for the new year.
Capitol holiday beauty
The State Capitol is a beautiful building any time of the year, but it’s especially so during the holidays.
View more →Nothing stronger than a winter tree
“There is nothing stronger than a winter tree,
No wind blows against it,
It is fierce beyond love.
There is nothing stronger than a winter tree,
and nowhere more secure.”
From Mary Oliver’s The Winter Wood Arrives.