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Winter Leaves

A stand of trees on an overcast winter day. The tall trees are bare and leafless, but the saplings underneath still have their brown leaves. The still-clinging and fallen leaves in shades of almost-pink provide a contrast to the dark trunks and foggy blue haze above. This hanging on of dead leaves through the winter is called 'marcescence', and it is especially common in young oak trees like these.
February 13, 2018

I first had the idea for this on a family trip around Thanksgiving of 2016. I was watching the landscape go by and noticed how the smaller trees still had their leaves, and how the dead leaves were almost pink. It may not be as beautiful as spring flowers or autumn leaves or snow, but there are scenes worth looking at even in an apparently lifeless landscape. This hanging on of dead leaves through the winter is called “marcescence”, and it is especially common in young oak trees like these.

This is my digital artwork, not a photograph.

grey, black, brown, orange, pink, tree, trees, sapling, saplings, woods, forest, leaf, leaves, rocks, branches, silhouette, fall, fallen, autumn, winter, fog, mist, haze, rain, dark, cold, chill

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