Branches and Roots

Have you ever looked at a tree sans its leaves before?-I never have, until today, when I suddenly noticed something. There were these whole clump of trees, looking desolately heavenwards for their next supply of garb, I mean their leaves. They looked as if they were begging some unknown entity to give back what was rightfully theirs.

I noticed something else too. These bare branches look strikingly similar to their below-the-ground counterparts;I mean the roots. If there never were any leaves then they might have been mirror images of each other.

As I try to jog my mind for such similar images from where I come, I draw a blank. I never have seen a truly bare tree before in my 22 years of life. At my place, all the trees do, is to lazily change their coat from a bright green to a pale brown, without ever really shedding their leaves altogether.

I must have looked at them a million times before, but never really have paid close attention.It also didn't seem important.Sounds silly...huh. But it came as a surpirse to me. There are so many of these small things which we take for granted, for which we don't have time to spare, but things that set chugs of your brain in to motion.

PS: Well this blog was just food for thought.