Winter trees

The trunks of the trees along the railroad line are greenish black, only a few stubborn leaves cling to the twigs. It is the time of year where the structure of trees are clearly revealed against the grey sky. I'm enjoying the diversity of branching patterns and wishing that I could collect all the patterns in one drawing.

Plant (3) - where do plants branch?

Often when I have a minute or two, maybe waiting for a train, I study the structure of plants - how they branch, how they grow. One thing that I have noticed is, that behind the apparent symmetric structure of a plant, looking carefully, a haphazard structure is found. A structure with a lot of false starts and runaway tries aiming nowhere.