the trees keep growing

blue skies in January, cool air, warm sun, little rain this month, and the trees keep growing. They have lost their leaves a lot of them, but the tree still stands, evidently unembarassed by its nakedness. The tree still stands, impervious to wind, no wind, rain, no rain, cold, grey skies or blue sunshine. I love trees! I've met a few people in the world who are like trees... shelter in the spring and summer, still standing, but bare in the winter. Home for some critters, including the birds who come and go, like the owls outside our house whom we hear soon after dark. No trees? no owls...I love trees!