Does this look creepy to you?

I can’t quite figure out why this tree looks strange to me, but those roots just don’t seem right.  Gnarled is okay, but somehow these things seem stunted and awfully white.
This seems an issue of expectation, don’t you think?  Tree roots are supposed to have certain qualities and when they don’t, well, it’s difficult to [...]

Simplicity

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Though spring begins slowly and tentatively, it grows with a tenacity that never fails to touch me.  The smallest and most tender shoots insist on having their way, coming up through ground that looked, only a few weeks earlier, as if it would never grow anything again.  The crocuses and snowdrops do not bloom for [...]