Waitress trees

H.R. Waller
Date: 3 October, 2008
Time: 1023
Location On the west side of Rogers
Weather: Colder, raining, 58 degrees
Today as I was walking through the dark glum of a first really rainy day, passing countless faces twisted up in uncomfortable scowls as icy drops of rain hit their faces, I noticed in the corner of a pair of concrete walls jutting out from Rogers an inconspicuous looking tree. It looked like a man slouching against a building as if waiting for a friend to come back from an errand inside the building. From a distance the tree looked like any typical Christmas tree, but up close its needle patterns were much more interesting and distinct. The bunches of needles all around each branch clumped together and curved up in an oblongated dish shape. The tree looked as if it was a waitress balancing hundreds of little green tea saucers on its arms. There was only one other tree like it on the other end of the building.