The lus h landscape beckons with dense green lawns, leafless trees sprouting pink and white blossoms, and an elegant, old-style home nestled on each lot.
It was a picture of a bleak, bare no man's land on which a solitary, leafless tree stood silhouetted.
These sit in backyards for so long that people take to decorating them and using them as kennels or toolsheds (one illustration shows them as a bright garden of strange, leafless .
Bird Bits: Exhausted, ravenous, the yellow-rumped warblers arrive The yellow-rumped warblers arrived a mid-May morning. They were ravenous for the insect hatch that hovered above a puddle by the Airport Dike Trail. A dozen male warblers flitted out from the leafless willows.
June 14, 2013 - Juneau Empire
Robert Burns in Sydney Morning Herald In contrast, "very narrow trees with leafless branches often appear in the drawings of the frail elderly, indicating that their spirit, their will to live, may be waning," Burns says.