Better to watch the rain fall in the branches of winter trees.
Just beyond the tops of bare winter trees is One Hyde Park, a much-hyped prime tower development offering some of the world's most expensive apartments.
The road curved along the back side of the Johnson Space Center, an expanse of empty ground bordered by leafless winter trees, where deer patrolled the fence line and joggers wended in and out of sight, following the exercise trail through a thin screen of forest.
As winter approaches, the trees are bare except for a few remaining leaves dangling from their branches.
Over many years you would see seasons progress very predictably: the bare trees of winter, giving way to the green tinge of spring, the full leafing out of summer and the blazing colors of fall.
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The East Room has been transformed into a winter wonderland, complete with four trees and garland and tree branches in every window.
The mild winter continues with some flowers and trees beginning to bloom and bud in February, which has garden experts like Greener by Design examining potential outcomes.
In winter of course healthy and sick ash trees are difficult to tell apart as the leaves will all have fallen to the ground.
In winter, when Florida's citrus trees brim with fruit, chef Michael Schwartz likes to pair grapefruit (his favorite citrus) with fresh fish caught off the coast.
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Come January, as soon as the Christmas trees are taken down and the winter sales flood the shops, the world of business starts thinking about the World Economic Forum -- better known as Davos.
People who had a system installed in winter often found that it stopped working in spring, as trees sprouted leaves that blocked the terminal's view of the base-station.
On aptly named Winter Street in a suburb of Boston, ice clings to bare trees and muddy snow mars the ground.
One of those is the new Winter Garden, a glass-enclosed, year-round tea lounge with trees and flowers.
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Sochi is warmer than past Winter Olympic host cities the seaside park will feature palm and magnolia trees but organizers dismiss concerns about having enough snow for the games.
In the winter, dusted by fallen snow, its pure abstraction is set off by bare trees, a vision of cold, crisp beauty, its marble taking on the look of an all-white Agnes Martin painting.
"It was a cold winter morning out in Afghan and I was just walking down a sandy path with overgrown trees on it when I put my right foot onto a pressure pad IED, it detonated and the next thing I knew I was on my back, " he said.
The trees, however, were bare, creating dark, bleak silhouettes against an anaemic winter sky.
Even in winter, when the Chechen fighters were at their most vulnerable cold, hungry and visible through the bare trees the Russian forces, which outnumber them at least tenfold, failed to destroy them.
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