Fall

Strolling down the sidewalk, you keep your eyes fixated on the ground. Trying ever so hard to weave between the millions of leaves who have found themselves spread across the landscape. When "CRUNCH!!", you step on one. You freeze, startled by this new and thrilling sound. Could all of this time been a mistake, avoiding the leaves? You try it again "CRUNCH!!!", and again you are filled with a feeling of accomplishment. You continue to walk, mashing every leaf you find. People look at you weird as you laugh and smile going out of your way to destroy another. What brought about this new found happiness? Something I like to call: Autumn.

Fall or autumn, which ever you prefer, is a wonderful time of the year. It has a beauty unparalleled by those of the other seasons. Spring is full of flowers, of new beginnings, a time when the world starts over. Summer is the beach, lemonade, and sun bathing. When hot sunny days engulf us with happiness with our friends. Or when it's not lighting storms give us a look at the world in a way we've never seen it. The winter pure. The white snow covers all that is evil and makes untainted. But fall has them all beat. Its beauty is an uncanny one. Its a beauty of death. The plants are dying off, the trees are hibernating, and all the wildlife leaves. But from this an artistry appears. The tree colors on a mountain side show what the green leaves have been hiding all year long. A crisp cold breeze as you are walking, brings chills down your spine. There is a scent in the air of cleanliness. Despite the death all around you, you feel alive and well.

Now autumn has not always been my favorite season. I used to love winter, I still do. I like how everything seemed perfect. The white snow allowed for the most demonic thing to look at peace. You can stand still and hear nothing, no birds, leaves rustling, nothing. Everything is frozen until spring. After a good snowfall, snowball fights and snowmen are everywhere. It is a peaceful time of the year. But what has made me recently change my mind about this season is college. Before now, on a normal basis, I would only be out in for a minute while I walked to and from my car. But now I must walk everywhere in the freezing cold. Its not even November and I can barely make it. I don't want to imagine what its like when its below thirty. So because of this fact, of having to walk everywhere, winter can no longer be my favorite season. One of the few drawbacks of college.

Wipers

Through the years man has developed technologies that have bettered human life. One of the greatest of these was the automobile, a way for humans to span great distances and transport goods hundreds of miles per day. Since the age of the Model T, new and better inspirations have changed the face of this technology and today I witnessed the grand climax of this. For this little red mid 90’s car had wipers. But not the normal windshield or back glass wiper, no, this car had wipers on its headlights. If you ever decided to drive into the eye of a hurricane, I am pretty sure you could make with this car. Those little headlight wipers will keep your visibility as perfect as a bright sunny day.

Although I am sure in the history of the automobile this little feature is nothing. My favorite era of cars was when we decided we all wanted to be astronauts so our cars became our own personal space rockets. Sleek designs, giant fins, lights that looked like rocket engines, we had it all. But none of them compare to the headlight wiper.

Everyday this car is parked in the same parking spot, and as I walk by I have to check and make sure those wipers are still there. It just seems too funny to be real. It’s also a shame it hasn’t rained since they brought their car. If I had those wipers I would want it to rain everyday just so I could use them.

Landscape

You think by me paying 18+ thousand a year my school could do a little better job of making my campus look nice. I mean I guess they tried… but not that hard. At least they planted something…a small, scarcely green, bush, which really does nothing to accent the area. I wouldn’t even mind if they just had one or two more bushes. That would fill in the area more than this single bush does. Other areas of campus have nice landscaping, multiple types of plants with varying colors and shapes. I just think they gave up when it came to this little section.


The reason I guess that I see this and am slightly disappointed is that my parents take great pride in their garden and keeping it full of blooming flowers year round. We have hundreds of plants in an area about three times the size of this plot. Ever since I was a kid, my early springs would be filled with planting new annuals, summers with watering the beds at least bi-weekly, and falls planting new bulbs for the spring. I know how much work it takes to keep up gardens and flower beds, but I know the school could do a much better job than this.

Heck I wouldn’t even mind just going out and buying my own plants to plant in the bed. Anything so that it looks slightly presentable to a passerby.