Week 2
This week I'd like to focus on leaves. Many people may think there's nothing special, nothing extraordinary about leaves; well I say different. Leaves are like snowflakes; you will never find two leaves that are exactly the alike.
     1. The Lost Battle
The first week I started observing my tree, there were very few leaves on the ground. On October 14, Mother Nature decided to give us a treat and make that day super windy. If you take the time to just sit outside and listen, you can hear the beautiful music the tree makes on a windy night. You can hear the long fight of the leaves trying hard to keep their lives. I walk outside the next morning seeing piles of leaves on the ground; the battle was lost.
     2. Keep Your Eyes Open
On a happier note, there are still many leaves on the tree. For a couple of days I didn't see any changes in the tree. There was nothing new to observe until I saw a chewed up leaf on one of the lower branches. I walked over to it to see if there were any insects eating away at it and came to find a fly sunbathing on the leaf. Whether the beauty in leaves be the change of colors they go through from green to yellow to orange to red, or a chewed up leaf be a relaxing bed for a fly, each and every leaf is special and has its own unique creation.

You just have to be willing to recognize how beautiful the simple things are.