Starkly Beautiful
Winter is the best season for really seeing trees.
Richard Grant
We have our reasons for planting trees: their fruits, their shade, shelter from the wind, a bit of privacy, something to fill that awkward gap by the driveway. But as often as not the trees outlive, or outgrow, our reasons for planting them. Oddly, that doesn’t seem to matter. As with our teenagers, their ungainly stature fills us [for the rest of this story, see the December 2007 issue of Down East]
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