Winter allows us to see a tree’s inner beauty
I wrote that phrase as I posted this image to Instagram today. It just fit. What I love about this image is the shape of the tree. Not just the beautiful outer curve, as you would see when it is full of leaves, but the inner beauty of the limbs as they twist their way outward into smaller and smaller branches. You can see the beauty of the whole tree, not only what’s on the surface.
And it got me to thinking… Life is like this too. Often it’s the quiet patches, the harder parts of life that really show what we are made of. It’s the difficulties and the down times that can reveal our true strength and inner beauty. It’s how we discover who we are at the core.
Just as we would not appreciate light without darkness, we wouldn’t appreciate summer as much without the comparison to the winter cold. And winter reveals an inner beauty, all its own.
When I lived in New England, I loved the amazing colors of fall. But I also loved the calm serenity and openness of the landscape after the leaves fell. This is a beautiful tree, and I love your framing that shows its setting.
” A tree’s inner beauty” – wow I like that phrase! I love bare trees or that stage when the leaves have turned golden colours and there are only a few remaining on the branches.
Great picture. It’s as if the tree is posing for you, knowing that you will do it justice and you always do.
Vi
It really fels that the tree is bending down…accepting and allowing the current season because it knows….