The End

The leaves have turned from green, to yellow, and have fallen. The grass that was once thick and green is now dying. The flowers have wilted and died in the cold. My place between the halls has halted to a slow, and all life seems to have ceased. Many changes have been seen in my place between halls, and many have been highlighted in this blog. With these deaths of the plants and beautiful life in my area, I've realized the deaths of my own on the inside, along with my goals for this year.

The trees have been stripped bare of their leaves, well the deciduous trees at least. Their once green leaves are now brown and fallen and the trees are naked compared to what they once were. They lose their leaves as a defense mechanism according to EarthSky.org. They use it as a way to survive in the harsh conditions. Many of deciduous trees' leaves are susceptible to damage by the cold and dry conditions, and the tree is less likely to succumb to the damage of the cold. The trees are the dreams I kept up with earlier in the year, but now I have lost interest in them.

The flowers have also died. Much to my sadness. The once beautiful, bright sunflower has now become a dull, wilting flower. I believe the bug had something to do with my flowers death. According to eHow: Home and Garden, bugs do have an effect on the well being of plants as well as general dry weather. Considering that we have been in drought for almost a year now, I'm surprised the sunflower was able to grow in the first place. This flower is a survivor. The one that kept going when the going got tough. It was like my dreams and goals that have persevered through tough times and have kept me going. The ones that gave me the little motivation to get through the semester.

I've learned from my place between halls. It has forced me to embrace the close observation techniques and also forced me into a state of self realization on reflection. These changes in my tract of land can be related to my goals and own life, and with that, with self realization, I end my ventures in the place between halls.

Works Cited

Thacker, Donna. "What Causes Flowers to Wilt?" EHow. Demand Media, 07 Aug. 2009. Web. 17 Dec.           2014.

Conners, Deanna. "Why Do Trees Shed Their Leaves in the Fall? | EarthSky.org." EarthSky. N.p., 17 Oct. 2014. Web. 17 Dec. 2014.

Pinecones:Dreams

I felt a strange connection to what I saw on the ground yesterday. Pine cones. Pine cones littered everywhere on the ground. They must have all fallen in these mad breezes that have blown through in these past days.

The pine cones are rather small, perhaps two inches wide at most, and they come from the three or four pine trees found in my place between halls. Through some research on the Truckee Meadows Water Authority website, the closest match that I could make to the trees in this area would be a sort of pine tree. The cones are small and round, but I can't seem to pinpoint the exact type of tree. The pine cones seem to cover every square inch of land underneath each tree, or at least seemed to me that was the case. They seemed out of place to me. I'd never seen so many pine cones in one place before.

To me, it was hard to walk on or near those pine cones. They seemed helpless, neglected in some way. I couldn't find the strength to crush the little guys. It seemed like their tree protector had just dropped them like a lost cause. No reason for the cause of death for them. Yet I found a similar situation to me in these neglected pine cones. To me, the pine cones are goals, and the tree is me.

Recently I've been wanting so much out of myself. Setting so many achievable goals for myself, yet accomplishing near to none of them. I've been praying to myself to find the motivation to better in all aspects of myself. Yet I won't. I drop the goals behind me and find entertaining ways to waste my time and be as unproductive as I could possibly be. Throwing my life away minute by minute. Yet I know I can do better.

Maybe I'm crazy, but I saw these and it brought all of these thoughts to my head. I love the way some of the things I find in my field of study strike me in odd ways. My mind takes odd concrete images and converts them into something completely abstract and wild, but I love it.

Works Cited

"Recommended List of Trees." Water Efficient Landscape Guide (n.d.): 1-22. Truckee Meadows Water        Authority Landscape Guide. TMWA. Web. 11 Dec. 2014.