Bare Trees - Tree-Tuesday Challenge

"I was alone in the cold of a winters day .... " ("Bare Trees"by Fleetwood Mac)

I used to live with a Fleetwood Mac fan - utterly obsessed. But later on I discovered she only knew the later Fleetwood Mac and not the Bare Trees Album gang (Mick Fleetwood/John McVie) which rock totally differently (and way more bluesy).

This is what Rolling Stone made of it, when it was released in 1972:

"The first song, "Bare Trees," its title suggested by a line from old Mrs. Scarrot's poem, moves along exhilaratingly, even though its lyric is a metaphor of age and approaching death; perhaps it's the acceptance of the cycle that gives the music a hopeful, almost happy feeling. " (Bud Scoppa).

No "Bare trees, grey light" for me today, though: after a straight run of pasty (or dull damp) skies blanketing January,

the sun put his hat on today and came out to play!

I notice the fat birch, I always pass, had a scowl. Thanks to the Posimismus-Challenge @winmental, I remembered to stay very aware on my walk today.
I stopped to study the swans for a while. This helped to make me feel more graceful and I continued afterwards with a smoother gait (despite a messed up psoas). Ah, the healing forces of nature!

Looking up at the birch I was once the moreover reminded of the important (esoteric) realisation that a tree actually lifts the earth up towards heaven. It's trunk is an extension, a kind of mound of this earth out of which its stalks (branches) and leaves grow. That's what makes hugging a tree so great. In this hug you fortify your upright nature that connects heaven and earth.

And low and behold, even the camelia opened up to the sparkly sun! Super early - but it's remarkably warm for winter, this year..... although always too chilly for me.