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.

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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 sun had dropped behind the bluffs already, so that the tops of the bare trees showed up finely spiky, like hair or fur, against a yellow glow of light from somewhere out of sight.

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The trees were still bare of leaves and my mother made Caro wear her coat in the mornings, but she came home after school dragging it behind her.

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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.

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On aptly named Winter Street in a suburb of Boston, ice clings to bare trees and muddy snow mars the ground.

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Parks are the lungs of the city and we need trees, not bare and barren flowerbeds.

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