10/27/08

Date: 10/27/08
Location: Park down the Mill Stream from Campus
Time: 1300 hours
Weather: sunny and brisk, cool air

My class and I have walked over to a park that's way down the path along the mill stream and I'm about six feet in the air sitting in a tree. From where I am I can see three different types of moss on this tree. One is light blue and scaly, one is a little more teal and bush like, and the thrid is dark green and looks almost like cedar branches. As I observe, this tree becomes more and more like an ecosystem in my mind. I'm sure that somewhere inside this tree, there are bugs that have made homes for themselves. This tree provides shelter for some animals, a resting place for birds, and food for others. As we're heading towards the winter months, the leaves already litter the ground. The ones on the tree don't look healthy at all and there's very few of them. The branches look thin and as I sit here, the leaves fall. What a sad time to be a tree.