1.   But on an apparently barren tree there were small hidden buds of life.

2.   His brilliant skies, barren trees and majestic mountains are created with watercolors and acrylic.

3.   One ominous image, for example, shows barren trees twisting oddly on a hillside above Long Beach, Calif., shrouded in smog below.

4.   Our climb to the crest of Little Roundtop wound past somber monuments, barren trees and polished cannon.

5.   The most striking is a slow sequence of a sea in motion, lightning flashing over it, barren trees rising out of the water.

6.   The oils are used in the winter on barren trees, which reduces the need for certain toxic chemicals during the growing season.

7.   They are gray and lifeless, like the dull sky and barren trees around them.

8.   Barren trees highlight the landscape.

9.   Rocks and barren trees now cover what were fields of corn, sugar cane and grazing land.