I took this photo in a park near my house. It is a very old, large tree that was broken during a storm. Pieces of the tree are lying scattered around the base, and fragments still hold on to the trunk. The tree will survive being broken, but it won't be the same as it was before the storm.
I took these photos at a different park near my house. When I was a little kid, I would come here with my siblings to catch crayfish and small fish. We would run across the stream in bare feet while my mom watched us, hoping that nobody would fall or cut themselves on a sharp rock. Taking these pictures made me very nostalgic because I hadn't been back to this park in a while.
These photos were taken in a park near my old school. Growing up, my family and I would walk my dog around the trail in this park, which was fairly large and incredibly quiet. It is always so peaceful there and revisiting it reminds me how easy it is to escape suburban noise, if only for a short while.
I took these pictures in a forest near my house. It had just stopped raining for the first time all day, and the leaves of all of the trees were still dripping delicate water beads. It smelled like fresh rain and it was very calm and serene. This particular plant stuck out to me because a caterpillar had eaten a hole in one of the leaves.
These photos were both taken later in the evening, right before the sun began to set. I came across this log laying on the edge of a forest, and it had clearly been there for a while. As shown in the photo on the right, a spider had turned the log into its home and spun its web, which was glistening with fresh rain. Even though the tree had died, it was still benefiting the ecosystem and providing a habitat for another member of the community.