The Witnesses #ThursdayTreeLove

I know not everyone lives where snow is common, so I always like to feature snow in my winter #ThursdayTreeLove posts.  Snow, after all, is what happens where we live in the winter.  In some ways, nature is predictable. 

Where I live in the Northeast United States, we are far from spring.  At this time of year, weary of snow, we ache for it so.  Our world outside is snow.

Now that it's February, the blue skies are starting to pop up here and there, and the sun angle brought out shadows in the snow.  This was after a snowfall, and the snow is still clinging to the evergreen.  To the right is one of our trees that loses its leaves in our winter.

These trees, and others, bear witness.  To something.  Do these trees know they aren't in a forest, but in an ecosystem ruled by humans?  But then again, COVID has proved (once again) that we humans are not in charge.

I don't know what trees think of people.  Probably, they don't think of us that much.  Their thoughts are secret, perhaps never to be known by us.  But there is increasing evidence that trees do think.

Maybe we aren't important to a tree's thinking, but we humans are so dependent on trees - for oxygen, for food, for lumber, for so much.

Witness the power of nature.  Witness the importance of trees.  Witness the fact that if we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. 

Love a tree today.

Joining Parul and other tree lovers across the world each second and fourth Thursday for #ThursdayTreeLove.