Imagine an evergreen tree floating out in the sky, surrounded by a snowy atmosphere. The leaves are flat and dark green, like the evergreen trees in your backyard, or in the nearby park. The tree trunk has a straight clean cut, disconnected from its roots, from the earth. That might be an indicator that even though it is often cold, rainy and otherwise hostile weather, it is still important to connect to your surroundings on a regular basis. So, in an attempt to hear this message, you go outside. It's cloudy and wet. You look down at the snowy floor, and a very large cool droplet falls on the back of your neck, a very deliberate sensation. You look up and it’s an evergreen tree, exactly as you had envisioned, with the flat leaves. 

Winter supports are so important, and their deep green presence is perhaps something you had taken for granted, ignored. They have supportive smells. You can rub a small part of the leaf between your fingers, and take in a deep breath, of the tree, or of your fingers. 

In the spring, made for wind dispersal, each pollen grain has air bladders, allowing the wind to carry it with ease. Here there are both easeful and supportive external factors that come together for the tree to pollinate. What texture of the air is surrounding you today? Would the pollen grain be carried through, or remain a floating cloud? Would it need an animal to aid the cone to receive that seed?