For RDP Thursday: GLABROUS

The leaves of the Holly tree are smooth, inflexible and sharp.

From a distance and up close Holly leaves look  like little green bones that have been glued to tree branches and splashed with  blotches of red.

Photographer Unknown

When it snows and the leaves start to turn white, it looks like the Holly Tree is growing a skin and as the skin stretches over the frame,  you can see the tree the Holly  tree that could have been –

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Holly in The snow
2016

just like a human skeleton in a museum or a forensic lab waiting for an artist to give it back it’s face.