Megalithic Trees and Us In Virginia Winter

MEGALITHIC TREES AND US IN VIRGINIA WINTER The inclemency of winter has stripped the towering trees of their peacock foliage of fall; gravity sucking them back to the womb that gave birth to their bare breasted branches. Yet these pompous zombies of nature stand poised like wooden megaliths winking and smiling at the sun peeking through stilled clouds lingering in stolen spaces between shades of blue and gray chilled skies. In the irony of this scene’s prelude to nature’s power of resurrection, we stoked the hungry fire and fed it another log; and warming away the cold, we waited with the trees to greet the coming snow.