The Evergreen In Winter ...

 “No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time.”

   ~ Frank Bolles

    ~ American author & naturalist

      ~ 1856 ~ 1894

  ~ The quote serves as a metaphor for hope, resilience, and the inevitability of change, emphasizing that difficult times (winter) are temporary

 A Norway Spruce laced with a light dusting of snow radiates a winter peace after a fresh snowfall under a velvet curtain of gray that creates a canvas of hidden poetry in the sky at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

I shot this scene on a late February afternoon in 2026. This Norway Spruce was the subject of the first nature photo I took very early in my photography journey in February 2009 ~ my has it grown!

The Norway Spruce is a rapidly growing, woody, needled evergreen tree in the pine family. It is often used as a Christmas tree, frequently selected as the Rockefeller Christmas tree in New York City.

Snow Painted Boughs...

“Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.”

                ~ Andy Goldsworthy, OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire)

                          ~ born 1956 

  British sculptor, photographer

                         & environmentalist 
I shot this evergreen with snow painted boughs on the upper plateau of Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania in mid-March, but it reminded me of the trees seen in Christmas Town in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, my most favorite of childhood Christmas specials ... and it still is!