Nature

Time at the Fort Worth Nature Center makes me appreciate nature trails and the complexity of nature. The hour and a half visits are usually spent maintaining the trails, especially fixing any holes in the trail and cutting down branches and plants in the way. This particular time was spent filling in dirt to sunken areas of the trail and creating dirt mounds to direct the water away from the trail. We learned that the damage to the trail is mostly caused by water running off from the grass and eroding the trail. So basically, all the did was move dirt for an hour and a half. This sounds like an experience straight out of Holes , the popular childhood movie. In fact, we even played the soundtrack of Holes the whole time while we dug, which added to the nostalgic experience. However, there was something so purposeful and peaceful about our task. While some could consider it monotonous, I enjoyed the routine of picking up and placing dirt. My mind got lost in the dirt, as it was the onl...

Spent two hours hiking around Eagle Mountain with my parents. The air was a crisp 40 degrees Fahrenheit, especially early in the morning with not much sun warmth. It was a beautiful hike, though the trees looked dead and exposed as most of their leaves had fallen. The flora consisted mostly of trees. However, there was the occasional splotch of cactus that broke up the landscape from the expected grasses and trees. Course, it is Texas, so cactus should have been a commonplace flora but it still surprised me every time I encountered it. The cactus reminded me of my bestfriend's house growing up. He had a small amount of cactus in the corner of his driveway and it always seemed like a nuisance because our basketball would always fall into it. It's crazy how memories of my bestriend's house always arose seeing cactus. The rest of the trip was marked by small windows of treeline where I could glimpse the pristine lake, besides one 10 minute stretch of shoreline trail, and a ...