" The morning woods were utterly new. A strong yellow light pooled between the trees; my shadow appeared and vanished on the path, since a third of the trees I walked under were still bare, a third spread a luminous haze wherever they grew, and another third blocked the sun with new, whole leaves."
This quote from Annie Dillard reminded me of how a naturally think of the woods in the beginning of spring, but more specifically it reminds me of a visit I made on the Noland trail. A couple weeks ago I was jogging on the trail when i witnessed what Annie Dillard considers "An utterly new morning woods." Newport news isn't really known to have the best sites to witness changes in vegetation through the seasons. But this particular morning really caught me by surprise because I hadn't really been paying attention to the nature around me, which i realized after this jog. The futures that really gave me this feeling of renewal were the combination of dead leaf remains and the sprouting of newly formed buds. Witnessing the past and present of the numerous trees in the forest really makes me appreciate the life cycles that plants go through as a result of seasonal change. I can relate my experiences of the different shadows to that of Annie Dillards because there were some places where the light shined heavily through the trees and spots where it was almost completely blocked by early leaf development.
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