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.
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