Snow: Nature’s Paintbrush

Several inches of snow fell overnight and had just stopped as we started this morning's winter walk.  Snow was freshly layered on trunks, branches, needles .

It was as if mother nature had dipped her brush in  thick white paint in order to illustrate the shapes and designs of trees.

The graceful curve of a branch

The balance of winter and spring on a twig

The silhouette of coniferous needles

The flow of a tree’s branches

My friend, Beth, sent this illustration by naturalist, May Watts, "Some ways of wearing snow".  How lovely.

May Watts, American naturalist, writer, poet, illustrator, and educator