The bare bones
witchy webbed against fomenting skies,
dormant
with barely a breathy promise of life.
Is your haunting silhouette a shadowy blight or a prayer upraised for spring?
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A p r o n h e a d -- Lilly Green 
How did I miss these? Wonderful photos.
Thanks. I just love winter trees–so picturesque.
“so picturesque,” yes. I agree. Your poem captures that, as well.
A thematically similar post, from back in November, if not quite the same:
Early Winter
Nice work. I too like the earth to sky perspective.
oh ya.. i’m like too
Beautiful photos and lovely poem 🙂
Thanks! There is just something about bare trees . . . 🙂
For some reason, I think they really look nice 🙂
These photos are absolutely beautiful!
These photos are simply wonderful! Thank you very much for sharing!
lovely!
Thanks!
Beautiful!
Thanks! I appreciate it!
I have such a soft spot for winter pictures. They resonate with the doldrums of the soul. Thanks for much for these pictures! It must’ve been so cold to take them.
The dormant and the dead trees do have an interesting feel.
Beautiful photography! I especially love that first one in black and white.
…following your blog…
You have a great eye, winter can be so beautiful…..
One of my favorite places to shoot has been tainted by young’uns creating a paintball war zone. Oh, well, I just crop the bottom tighter. 🙂
Dormant trees are so stark and spectacular. Love them, love your words.
Beautiful, haunting post!
🙂
You always hope there is still life there. I can think of some life situations that are the same!
That first photo is amazing!
Where are the icicles?
Nothing more haunting than a hibernating tree with long finger like icicles hanging from the branches 😉
Cheers and congrats on being freshly pressed
-Ron
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The desert doesn’t often grant us icicles, but we do get occasional snow.
Oh, and thanks. FUN!
Thank you, Flawed Christ follower for your photos. They’re great!
Connie
http://7thandvine.wordpress.com/
🙂
In my Art School Training thru the School of Industrial Art (Now called the School of Art and Design) in Manhattan, New York City, where I attended school as a young man; I was taught that simplicity was the key to great art. This blog, its poetry and especially its photo’s is a great example of such.
Thanks for such a good comment.
I love the pictures!
Also CONGRATS on being fresh pressed!
Fun! My inbox starting getting entry after entry, and I wondered what was going on! 🙂
Absolutely beautiful photos and lovely words to go with them. Thanks for sharing and congrats on being freshly pressed!
Thanks! It was a surprise. Now if it only came with money! 🙂
Very nice photos and poem!
What an unexpected surprise! The picture caught my eye from the Freshly Pressed page, but your poem drew me in to the rest of the post. Lovely.
Thanks for such a kindness.
Winter pictures always seem to have a mystical magical edge.
Well done on being freshly pressed.
Sally
Thanks! It is a pleasant surprise.
Love the Photography!
Thanks. They are spots I take over and over again, but they are always changing!
I think that I shall never be
A thing as lovely as a tree
Others praise with joyful hymns
I’m more at peace with upraised limbs
2 of my favorite things: trees and clouds. 🙂
Congrats on getting pressed! Keep up the great work
Thanks so much!
This reminds me of a poem I wrote last year:
March
Winter wars with spring, instinctively.
It blows frosts gusts whips
fight fight fighting
Spring
And her steady unfurling
Marching bringing fruition piously, mindlessly,
Blooming victoriously in her humility,
Perennically.
Winter always loses.
Nice . . . and may it ever be so!
Gosh that’s pretty!
Thanks a lot!
Congrats on being Freshly Pressed. I like your spare style to reflect the starkness of skeletal winter trees. With a sister who’s a landscape and nature photographer, I see many shots reflecting mood and personal thought. Yours are marvelously well-done. Keep it up.
Claudsy
Thanks. I appreciate the comment.
Wonderful!
Thanks
i thought poetry was dead, thanks for sharing…
Awesome! 🙂
just absolutely gorgeous!
Glad I found your blog. Beautiful photos!!
Absolutely stunning photos! I’m so glad I visited your blog. 🙂
Computer doesn’t like me saying Thanks again. 🙂
Love your poetry and pictures! The bare branches of winter trees have always touched my heart! I am following your blog!
I love the artistry and the poetry in them, and also in dead trees. The metaphors to life seem to scream out.
I’ve always loved leafless trees, thanks for sharing!
I am a tree person for all seasons!
Never thought bare trees could look so beautiful. I guess at the end its about one’s perception.
Love to see more on the similar theme. Cheers !
Thanks for stopping by!
So Weird that I cam across this after I have just written a post about how I love Coney Island (New York) in the Winter. Winter is so beautiful. In Durban (South Africa), we don’t really have winter and most of the trees keep their leaves all year round. One of my favourite things is the autumn leaves falling and then the raw tree structure that winter leaves behind. It is amazing that in spring, they burst forth into life, as if winter never happened.
Right! I love it.
Love your poetry and shots. Winter trees always seem so sad to me.
Seems there’s a longing there.
Love these pics. Trees are beautiful even when bare of leaves. As you so rightly say, they are full of the promise of Spring. 😉
Just Lovely
. . . thanks
Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed! Love this post…
Fun, fun!
my favorite is the first photo.. it’s lovely.. oh and your poem, i love it.
Thanks for the kindness!
Wow! I’ve never got this kind of press!
It’s been kind of fun!
Yay! You got Freshly Pressed! Happy for you!
Yeah, a happy pill!
Aloha Lilly! Remarkable and striking photos. The following line really grabbed my attention: “witchy webbed against fomenting skies,” Congrats on being freshly pressed. Peace and blessings to you and yours.
Ron
Thanks! I appreciate the comment.
Beautiful photographs! I too find leafless trees set against the sky particularly enchanting.
Trees and clouds in the same pic–awesome!
Your pictures “speak louder than words.” And your words add the finishing touches to end up with art at its best. Love your blog and thanks for sharing.
Thanks for such nice comments!
Beautiful pictures & thought provoking words – I love tree silhouettes.
thanks for sharing…
I love it!
Beautiful pics…!
i like it
where I live the bare bones have been lost under the body tissue that is snow
Funny!
beautiful photos..
These photos are looks good. But I don’t like winter. I live in Ankara ( Turkey ) The weather is very very cold. 😦
Hello, Apronhead,
“Is your haunting silhouette a shadowy blight or a prayer upraised for spring?” Ah, can we turn to the next question, please? ^^
But your pics truly depict “witchy webbed against fomenting skies.” Your pics are talking. :):)
🙂 Good comment! Mmm, next question: When’s lunch?
Lovely!
THX
This is just perfect. My favorite season of the year. There is beauty in death. Keep up the amazing work!
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cool!! those trees look like our tree in the front yard as well… c”,)
. . . Cool!
I’ve been seeing plenty of tree themed posts around the web lately. You’re photos are brilliant. I made a post a few weeks ago, on the same thing. http://laavventura.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/the-naked-canadian-tree/
Nice to know, Im not the only one obsessed with trees.
Always have been. As a kid I wrote poetry in the top of our apple tree. 🙂
i love this 🙂
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beautiful photos and a true poem. Thanks for sharing 🙂
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Great winter shots! (:
Great title! Beautiful, desolate shots.
Appreciate the comment!
The poem is strong. The photos, especially of the trees, are wonderful.
This is so beautiful. I don’t know why i didn’t come across this before 🙂 beautiful 🙂 I too am a poet. well an aspiring one atleast 🙂
Thanks~
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The branches look bare now but there’s plenty of life to come yet.
Let it be! 🙂
Beautiful images, beautiful words. Congrats on being Freshly Pressed. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks!!!
Beautiful photos and words. Congrats on being freshly pressed.
Thanks!!
Exceptional evocative images and interweaving of text. Thank you.
Nice comment!
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Oh, the black and the blue and the light… I love it when this happens. Lovely shots.
Beautiful enough!
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Cool photos!!
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But not in Southern California!!
Right now So. Cal. is downright balmy. But I’m still hoping for snow! Thanks for reblogging. Very cool!
Awesome and your words to describe it are beautiful.
val
http://valentinedefrancis.wordpress.com
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Great poem and photography. I love winter themes, .. a little of poetry and beauty into my day, Thanks!
Nice comment!!
this is beautiful. the words and the images truly enhance each other.
thanks–
Winter reveals all that is hidden. It is awesome the skeletons of the trees. God has endowed every season with so much beauty.
Mmm, reveals all that is hidden. That can mean expose my poor sorry self or it can mean it will drive us to search out the hidden depths of God. Perhaps both!
Beautiful photos! I love trees and the many messages they send us in all the different seasons! Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed!
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Absolutely breathtaking. Concise, but with many questions left hanging.
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Thanks. I’ll check it out when I empty my in-box. 🙂
top photo (black and white) is brilliant
It called out for it.
Wow! Such stunning photos…
. . . a beautiful day in the neighborhood. 🙂
such beautiful shots and words… ive recently become obssessed with taking pictures of bare branches, so i tottally love this.
I love all manner of trees, but there is something speical about dormant and even dead and gnarly weathered trees.
Beautiful…
Breath-taking in word and picture. Thank you for reminding me of the beauty and peace we felt when hiking early this winter. I am so eager to get back to it with my three little boys.
Making these captures and sharing is like a mini-vacation for me!
Great photos. I too favorite the first one. I love black and white.
Sarah
Me too!
Nice photos to enhance the imagery!
Lovely pics.
I especially like the third one, with the tree-without-leaves silhouetted against the blue sky.
wow, your article is very useful. i like your blog. thank you friend.
Beautiful photos with really beautiful words. Wonderful post.
It’s scenes like this that make me want to stay under my duvet all Sunday, love your words.
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I always had a thing for bare naked trees. I’ve found them beautiful, intriguing. This picture I found in my daily reading on the Freshly Press on WordPress, are exactly that and they come with a short poem. Enjoy and get inspire! Don’t forget to visit the owners blog.
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Too many of us put our heads down and bulldoze our way through winter. Your work celebrates one of the details of our most misunderstood season. It’s all in the details. Thanks.
Absolutely . . . and a change in perspective.
Very good photographs. I also love trees.. i don’t know why they seem so special in their own solitude..
nice photos 😉
the third photo JUST FALL IN LOVE WITH IT
wow, great photographs. i like them all. thanks for sharing.
TechSmartLife
Gorgeous. Gives me new appreciation for winter!
Now if it would just snow! 🙂
I love your pics, I really like the stark leafless trees against the icey blue sky. I like the way your poem conveys the slightly sinister look as well as the beauty of them.
Nice observation!
Beautiful.
Very beautiful Photo”s…
thx!
Such lovely bare bones…and writing as well, thank you for sharing!
My pleasure~~
Beautiful, Just Beautiful…. I love it 🙂
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I love the poem and the pictures made me feel inspired as I have been trying to put pen to paper to describe my winterized woods, that seem so devoid of color…thank you.
Great!
Beautiful! I love photographing in winter. Few colors but lots of shapes; the black-and-white conversion really accentuates the shapes and lines. Keep up the good work.
There is something special about bare trees!
Nice. I enjoyed the photos.
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Crape myrtle is beautiful in bloom and naked! Great images!
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Awesome pictures!
Merci! WP won’t let me say Thanks more than once! 🙂
Beautiful shots! Thanks for sharing! I’m really enjoying your blog 🙂
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Oh so lovely – thank you!
Fun to share!
Beautiful to capture winter at its best! Nice shots.
Now bring on the snow!
It is beauty like these photos and words that are the only thing I love about winter. It’s a season that tortures but in a gorgeous way. What a lovely post!
…Thanks!
Very beautiful!
My children laugh at me because I comment on trees while out and about. I now laugh at them, because they do to. I passed down my love for trees! They think it such a random thing to point a tree.
That’s funny. My kids used to do the same thing. Look, Mom, tall trees! 🙂
Beautiful black & white treatment on the tree. Works well!
strangely haunting and beautiful!
Thanks—
Great photos! I really like the angle you picked to show the bare tree branches.
Jimmy
http://www.slightlyreworded.wordpress.com
Love trees photos! 😀
Yes! Me. too.
I loved these pics! They stay on in the memory for long!
beautiful and artistic…love it
Uplifting and super photos. Thanks!
Beautiful bare bones,I must say!
I like the pictures. I like your question ‘shadowy blight or prayer upraised for spring?’ Thoreau said it a long time ago, writing about the late-blooming witch hazel: there’s a little spring in every season.
Good comment!
I like your photography. Such a great shots.
Lovely!
Like you, I’m very fond of the bare branches of winter.
Me, too. Love it.
Somehow, your poem pinched something in my heart…
I hope that was good. 🙂
I am loving (and braving) the cold at the moment, thank-you for sharing your creativity 🙂
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Captivating in in mystique 🙂 Wonderful 🙂
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i am AMAZED by your expression- dormant, yes, bare trees standing and dissolving into the background…
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Sure, just give copyright credit to me. Thanks.
great pictures – well reflected winter feeling – 🙂
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A solitary Winter walk is always rewarding!
. . . and with a dog! 🙂
Well said, Apronheadlilly! 🙂
Much thanks!
There is just something about winter bare trees that is just magical. Sad sometimes but magical. Amazing work..:)
Thanks for stopping by!!
Your pictures are stunning and quite mesmerizing; you could quite easily get lost within the moment you have captured.
Beautiful words too
I appreciate your comment. Thanks!
Very Nice
Beautiful.
What a truly beautiful post!
I must be one of the rare ones. I absolutely love winter and your photos are stunning!
I do too!
The poem is spectacular. Beautiful.
Thanks! A kindness.
“witchy webbed” — nice alliteration and beautiful word choice.
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Is your haunting silhouette a shadowy blight or a prayer upraised for spring?–I hope it’s the latte 🙂 I love your work!
Lovely Lovely!
Much thanks!!
these trees are beautiful
David in Maine USA
Maine–wow, now there are some trees there!
absolugely gorgeous shots of the trees naked in winter. I love them. Thanks for sharing.
thanks…
Great pictures and elegant poetry! Just beautiful!
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Wonderful trees and skies… Nice words too. 🙂
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The first shot is the WINNER for me!
great poetry
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A sinewy image…nothing to attract the eye…..no shelter….. it stands alone awaiting the Spring. Isaiah comes to mind….
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Hello There. I found your blog using msn. This is a very well written article. I’ll be sure to bookmark it and return to read more of The Bare Bones of Winter | Apronhead . Thanks for the post. I’ll certainly return.
lovely
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These are fabulous, and “The Bare Bones” is definitely tops!
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Those are great photos! 🙂 I love silhouettes of trees in winter. Nice to see black and white shots for a change too,
Carol.
Thanks! I take that spot over and over again with different results.
I love the first shot. Thanks for stopping by my blog.
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You’re a woman after my own heart! I love taking photos of trees! I’m a devoted tree hugger. 🙂
Yay!!
I’m optimistic and voting for the prayer for spring. That was very kind of you to stop by my site. I like how the clouds stand out against the darker sky in your first picture, the black and white one. Nice interpretation of what you felt!
THanks. Weatherman is calling for another blast of winter this weekend, so spring may be on hold. 🙂
Good poem. I love that top shot.
Thanks so much.
You can feel the chill!
Yes! 🙂
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I am reblogging my Bare Bones post of last January in hopes that fall will fall! It has been unseasonably warm, and the trees are not changing their clothes. So come, Fall. Come, Winter!