Fall is in full swing.

Lately while observing the trees I've noticed just how beautiful fall really is. Even though the nights and early mornings are cold, the afternoons are warm, forcing me to decide whether to wear jeans or shorts. I still believe that if you want to see something beautiful in nature, these trees are your best bet. With all of their beautiful and colorful leaves falling off, these trees provide a sight that isn't dismal. Sometimes when I feel sad and I need a getaway from home or school, I will sit in the field at Mendive Middle School and either look at the trees' elegance and stillness, or look up the sky and wonder to myself the fate of the trees. When I move away or die will these trees that I have seen almost everyday for my entire life still be standing? Or will they be uprooted and the space they currently inhabit be used for something boring, and ugly to look at?

I have so many questions I ask myself about these trees, however none of the trees ever provide me with any clear answers. Until they do I will wander around my line of trees and continue to gaze at them in astonishment, and wonder.

Oh What A Wonderful World

For as long as I can remember I used to wake up in the morning get dressed, and go to school, always passing by the long line of trees and bushes, sometimes i would walk by the trees and put my two fingers in between a branch and pull the leaves off until it looked like a beautiful flower in my fingers. On other days in the fall, or early winter I would put one leg on the side walk, and one in the gutter and drag myself through the remaining leaves. Just recently because of my new start at Wooster High School I haven't been able to pass by these trees every morning. So when this project was introduced I thought it would be amazing to observe these trees I once observed without thinking.

Ever since I started to observe the trees closely I have noticed details I couldn't even dream about seeing when I was just a child. So far I've observed broken fence boards that a child or teenager has broken, in order to get to the house directly behind it. I have also noticed many wild life changes such as a birds nest, multiple little insects, and lizards that roam the ground. The leaves still without a doubt still are the best things so far that I have seen, their rapid change from green to orange to yellow is just breathtaking. I just hope that when the winter storms come around the trees will look just as breathtaking as they are now!

The Observation project

Hi everyone my name is Nick and in my English class we are doing a nature project which forces me to observe something of my choice. I decided to observe the trees that run alongside the street across from Mendive Middle School, which is about a block away from my house, so it is very convenient. I plan on observing the trees and their surroundings, such as the moonlight, the ground, and the weather that occurs. At least four times a week after school on my way home, I have yet to set a specific time to carry out my observations. Throughout the course of this project I hope to be able to notice vast changes in the way the trees react to the changes of seasons.

So far what I've noticed is that the trees provide a great deal of shade from the sun to the houses that are directly behind them. This is something that anyone who drives on the road can see, and by the time that Mendive gets out of school the shade has shifted, and it provides excellent shade to the parents that are parked directly under the trees to pick up their students. I can still remember when I walked home from school under those trees. The shade felt so good during the hot August afternoons.

I've never had to observe these trees so closely, I hope that this school project will actually be one of the ones I will enjoy, and remember years from now. I look forward to my future observations to see how the trees change from the beginning of the project, to the end.