sunset light
mostly claimed by trees
still there is enough
Walked home just before sunset on a very cold but very clear winter day. The trees on IU's campus looked particularly beautiful: the bark on the bald cypress by the Jordan River was turning a rose-gold, a large sycamore at the edge of Dunn Meadow was half-bathed in sunset light, and this beautiful tree lifted its jagged limbs toward the darkening sky. Spent a few minutes really observing each.
Last May campus lost some very large trees when a tornado and a bad thunderstorm whipped through town-- both within a few days. Today it was great to notice a half-dozen or more little bald cypresses planted by the Jordan. An inscription said that they were planted in October. This means in a generation or so people will walk under these grand trees at winter sunset and admire them.
