Production Slump

I have been wracking my brain for how to scale down my production piece to something manageable as well as something that I like, and that latter is posing to be a problem right now.  I just can't seem to figure out how I want my piece to look.  Since my theme is the influence of time, I wanted a piece that would go through and show some sort of flora and how it is influenced by the four different seasons.  I started making my own chain and playing with different ways to make jump rings and really focusing on the transitions throughout the piece.  So far though, nothing too breathtaking has come from it.
The disappointing thing is that we are right in the middle of the trees and plants going through their own transition from summer to fall and I'm still not really sure how to incorporate it all.

Production Piece

Having started working on my ideas for my production piece, I was leaning towards things mainly influenced from nature that fit into my theme. The idea I had that I think I liked the best was creating a necklace or a bracelet that would have four different tree shaped charms that would be representing a tree in each of the four seasons showing the tree as it changes over time.  I would probably only use silver for one or two of the seasons and then I could use brass, copper and/or bronze for the others and possibly treat them with a patina in order to further portray the seasons.  The thing I need to work on now is integrated the chain of either the bracelet or the necklace into the design of piece.