Everything is so beautiful today. It's like, the perfect day. The wind is blowing strong, the air is mildly warm, and when the sun does shine through it makes those trees that are sprinkled with color turn into something truly magnificent. The willows, whose branches look like a pale yellow under the shade of the clouds, look like gold under the suns brilliance. Birch trees follow a similar pattern and shine with an almost blinding white when those rays of light touch them.
I think the most amazing thing about a day like this is that despite that most of these plants appear dead, lacking that green brilliance they have in mid spring, everything looks awesome. Have you ever noticed a giant oak out in the middle of a field, lacking all its leaves? It just stands there strong, baring all it's branches to the world.
A tree is such an intricate thing. It has a firm strong stem and roots that usually go unnoticed at a distance. They're misshapen and appear warped. Some of branches stretching immediately out of their stem, from the very point it emerges from the ground. Others stretch tall before any branches spread out. They can spread out wide, seeming to take up every available space they can reach. Or they can grow upwards, keeping confined to one area.
I don't know what it is about a day like this, or about the way things look in transition from winter to spring, but I wish the world looked like this more often. Maybe, perhaps, I need to look more often.
[Listening to: Bigger Than We Know - James Joyce - Bigger Than We Know (03:29)]
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