" To see a tree in Winter is to see it for what it really is. A Winter tree is an object so intricate and so perplexing that if it hadn't already; been decided that Winter trees were plain and boring, we would be spending hours pondering them, staring at them in astonishment. "

― Vivian Swift , Gardens of Awe and Folly: A Traveler's Journal on the Meaning of Life and Gardening