Attitudes and characteristics can create an edge thus a signal value or a profile.
Applies to virtually everything both organisms, architecture or basic elements of nature.
Some plants in the winter landscape can stand as silhouettes.
Doubt can come creeping whether they are victims or profile-like harbingers:
“There is a life after winter”
The worth visiting Thursday’s Special themes created by Paula
The inspiring theme this week “Profile“
Le Drake Noir 
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There’s a beautiful word – harbinger! I don’t see them as victims at all, not of changing seasons. They are now silhouettes, but not for long. I enjoyed this interpretation. Thank you, Drake.
It needed some air this not much used word… 😀
So glad you enjoyed this answer of your challenge… 🙂
A wonderful approach to the theme.
I agree with Paula, you gave a beautiful interpretation. I think life is simply asleep in winter but it continues… so I prefer to look at those plants as harbingers! 😉
Very windswept