On a walk

I decided to walk a stretch of my route back home. I live in the rural area in the metropolitan area. There is a lot of vegetation and the roads are one way. I have lived there since I was born. At the beginning I thought that nothing of what I saw would surprise me and that everything was familiar to me, since I have been taking the same road to my house since I can remember. Just like Alexandra Horowitz, I realized how ignored this path has been for me. I focus more on the vegetation, since the houses of my neighbors are scattered and far away. Although my knowledge about plants and trees is very limited, I am amazed to see so much variety.

I noticed some trees that continue to recover from Hurricane Maria. Others are already flourishing and bearing fruit. I am amazed by the resilience of the vegetation to recover after such a great catastrophe. I had never stopped to capture and observe carefully the roots, branches and leaves of these great trees that are still recovering. I saw many others that were just beginning to germinate and others who were along the road because they did not resist the phenomenon.

I saw a lot of sizes, colors and shapes in the flowers and it was what caught my attention. There were large, medium and small, some beginning to wither and others barely budding. Some had a single color and others had multiple colors ranging from the most opaque to the brightest. I'm sure some color of those flowers has not yet been imitated or used by humans. As I watched the flowers, I saw a few bees doing their great and impressive work and I was so curious that when I returned home I started looking for information and research about pollination, which bees are responsible for. I took a few flowers to investigate and at least know their names. This exercise helped me to realize how alienated I was from what surrounds me. I took the opportunity to learn and investigate.