A deep blue sky, a late afternoon cloud lighted by the setting sun and a finally bare Tamarack (Larix laricina). What a remarkably beautiful and simple gathering.
And a lovely poem, a perfectly appropriate celebration of this photograph, came my way today from Vermont Humanities Council:
Winter Trees
All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold.
Still Learning To See 
:-). I got the same vt Humanites mailing. Thanks for adding a visual, John.
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