Trees

H.R. Waller
Date: 20 October, 2008
Time: 1730
Weather: partly cloudy, still, 57 degrees
Location: The Willamette River

While we were rowing today at crew practice, we were warming up and doing drills. When the bow four got to take a break, I had a chance to look around and observe a bit as the crisp autumn wind rushed through my hair and tickled my face. I was looking at the bank to the east and observing the many colors of fall that had been produced there. There was a plethora of brown, yellow, and dark orange. I then noticed that most of the trees on this bank have already lost the majority of their leaves and are now merely dead, gray branches standing tall and skinny. However, on campus most of the trees have only just begun to change and still have the majority of their leaves, though they are losing more and more each day. I wonder why the trees over here are still more full, while the trees 2 miles away are more dead looking already?