Rose Dickson
29 October 2008
1832 – 1904 hours
19745 Wildwood Dr. West Linn, OR, USA
50 degrees, clear
Pulling into my driveway in West Linn, OR, I immediately notice an extreme difference from the last time I visited. The tree outside my house has turned completely pumpkin orange. It seems that the timing could not have been better, with the anticipation for Halloween in the air, but the quickness of the change really startled me. The last time I visited home was Sunday the 26th, it is only three days later and this tree has completely transformed. Most tree’s on Willamette University campus have become a beautiful mix of yellow, orange, red and small hints of green, the oddity about this tree, here in West Linn, is that each leaf is exactly the same solid orange. I wonder if I had been home all along whether I would have realized the change so drastically? Am I incorrect in assuming this hasn’t happened at Willamette? It seems that immediate changes upon return to a specific place seem more substantial, in the mind’s eye, than an observed gradual change overtime in one place. This small display of that understanding also can represent itself on a broader spectrum, if we were to bring back someone dead for hundreds of years, how would they respond to the condition of our earth now? Would they react stronger about climate change than we do?
No comments:
Post a Comment