Green Again!

I was surrounded by green as I walked through the Springbrook Nature Center today. Trees that were only budding a week ago, were dressed full out in green today. It had been raining since yesterday and all the leaves were washed clean. The cool breeze had a bite to it, refreshing and cleansing as I breathed it in.

There is a feeling of wildness walking through the woods here. Everything grows in a random, haphazard way. In the dense woods, trees grow up grotesquely. They are not full, rounded and lush as they would be in a perfectly designed city park. The branches here curl upward seemingly reaching around the more prominent, older trees; searching for the sustenance of the sun. Here the old and dying trees coexist with the new growth. It is real. It is life.