Appreciating the winter landscape is one of the ways to stay happy in winter (a trip to the tropics helps too).  Leafless trees and their understory, each species with its own silhouette, is a good way to learn tree ID.  Look for the haunting lines of the Black locust, the structurally solid appearance of a Sugar maple’s crown, the lateral oak and butternut with their long leaders, and tall thin ash or hickories. Find a November bloom of witchhazel, golden pink hydrangea bloom, and fading copper colored beech leaves hanging on sometimes into April!  Can you guess how cold it is with the degree of droop on your rhododendron’s winter leaves?