H.R. Waller
Date: 17 October, 2008
Time: 1300
Weather: pleasant, 60 degrees, some sun
Location: Deep wood

Today at 1300 hours, while taking a nature walk with my colloquium class, we went to Deep wood and saw so many different and interesting types of vegetation. It is interesting to me how in the middle of an industrialized city there can be such an escape as this one, full of beautiful and almost exotic looking plants. One of the trees that caught my eye was a tall, leafy tree with a large light brown trunk. It mixed in with all the other trees as far as height and its palmately lobed leaves, but the thing that was different about it was its branches. Rather than the usual thick and sturdy branches that protrude from trunks as thick as this one, this tree's branches were almost as thin as pencils and they didn't start until about 2/3 of the way up the tree. Each skinny little branch springing out in different directions then had a cluster of leaves running up it and on its end. When looking straight up at the tree from below, it appeared normal and fully leafy, but when observing the individual branches they looked scragly and as though they could not amount to a full bunch of leaves that the other trees posessed.