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Balance #ThursdayTreeLove 1

Mar 9, 2017 the bespectacled mother Miscellaneous 7 comments

day-4-braving-the-cold I let go of the leaves

to cradle the snow.

Balance, it is!

I am joining Parul Thakur, this week, with her post for the hashtag #ThursdayTreeLove

Please feel free to join her with your own photograph of a tree (or trees). It could be just the photo or you may write a few lines about it.

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Beat About The Book says:

Mar 9, 2017 at 12:14 pm

It looks rather bleak but the black and white is striking.

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Parul Thakur says:

Mar 9, 2017 at 6:27 pm

Lovely! And those words about cradling the snow – sweet. Thank you for joining, Anamika. 🙂

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Esha Mookerjee-Dutta says:

Mar 9, 2017 at 8:11 pm

Oh, so cold! But look how the tree is braving it! Winter has a beauty entirely of its own and your picture says it all.

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Sid Balachandran says:

Mar 10, 2017 at 10:10 am

Oh my! I can’t get over how glorious that snow on the tree is!

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sunainabhatia says:

Mar 13, 2017 at 4:21 pm

Letting go is the way – or rather it ought to be the way to live a happy life – you put an important message in such few words and that too so poetically ! Beautiful!!!

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My Era says:

Mar 17, 2017 at 11:44 pm

Snow clad trees have a way of haunting memories like only they can.
Beautiful ❤

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