Just a few weeks ago Motivated Mom was pointing out the brilliant colors of post summer. Flowers were giving their all in a final blaze of color and trees sported richly hued patchwork cloaks.
Weakened from their heroic displays of plumage, the flowers have now collapsed to the ground and trees have shed their leaves. Like athletes who have depleted the last of their energy reserves, the trees now stand with their branches hanging limp and barren.
Lined up along perimeters of dried and brown fields, battalions of trees stand shoulder to shoulder - their weary and skeletal arms linked with one another for the mutual support that will carry them through the gray and bleak days of the coldest months of the year.
I find myself wondering where trees find the stamina to survive the blustery cold for weeks on end. I suppose it is from the sap that runs deep in trunks and roots. A reassuring glue of life that carries whispers of unending cycles and promises of the return of warmer days.
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