Botanical Garden

22 September 2008
3:06
Botanical Garden, Willamette University, Salem, OR
The weather is cool and breezy and the sun is hiding behind a veil of clouds. The wind is gentle at times, but will suddenly rush by in torrents roughly pushing the flowers in frond of me to the ground. The flowers directly in front of me are an array of reds, oranges, and yellows. The short red flowers growing in the foreground look like little bells dangling on a string. These flowers mix together and intertwine in a most harmonious way, slowly blending from one species to another. In particular the Mexican sunflower catches my eye, the vivid orange gleaming off the petals. I walk behind these plants and look up at them from beneath. The sun has now come out from hiding and shines through the petals in a luminous fashion. The ground I have been walking on is soft and cushions my bare feet, though, every now and then a stray twig snaps under toe. Behind this veil of flowers the mill stream flows free and fast rushing over rocks on its way to the center of campus. I love watching how the mill stream progresses from an almost gutter like alleyway to a beautiful winding stream through campus.