Skeletons Reaching Up

With the recent rain storms, the stubbornest trees have finally given up their leaves, so that all that are going to, now stand bare. I love skeletal trees against a gray sky! The neat thing is that when trees have leaves, they look nicely balanced, as if their limbs are just being held up and out horizontally. But bare trees reveal that the branches and twigs actually reach upward toward the sky; it is the flexible leaves hanging from them that are nearly horizontal.

From their very bones, trees reach heavenward.