Winter Trees

This time of year there's one kind of tree on everyone's mind--The Christmas Tree. And while we fill our homes with these joyful symbols of the winter holidays, outside the trees of Rutherford are putting on a beautiful show of their own. It's one that speaks to abundance, weathering change, and rebirth, and it never disappoints.

William Carlos Williams, Rutherford, New Jersey's favorite native son, wrote this poignant poem titled Winter Trees:

All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold.

And while they sleep, we see some of the smaller trees wrapped in their Treegator bags--they almost look like Christmas tree skirts!