Black and White

Baloo and I pass orchards and vineyards every day as we're out walking or traveling to favorite woodland trails.

We got to watch this young cherry orchard being planted not long after we moved up here. I thought the long rows of dormant trees in the snow were a pretty study in perspective (literal and figurative). 

This orchard is much more mature and the trees have an interesting and almost sculptural feel to them that is accentuated by the snow coating the trunks and limbs. 

Every season is beautiful in its own way. Before we know it there will be beautiful snowy pink and white blossoms adorning the trees, with great splashes of green and blue, instead of such stark gray, black and white. 

I do love seeing the bones of the trees and land, though.