Texts, Treks, and Bears Oh My!

In the crisp November air, bundled up in a scarf and coat, I went walking around campus. Some of the trees had already lost their leaves and were now bare, while the flowers still remained in bloom. Having already talked about those things in my last nature observations, I wanted to pick something different and came across something I’d previously been fascinated by but never really observed. The Moudy buildings tucked away on the far edge of campus houses house a series of vines on the side of the building. These vines begin from the ground and stretch across a great length both horizontally and vertically, as though they were reaching for the sky. Leaves grow on some of them yet the majority of the vines are bare of any foliage. They branch out like a spider’s web, yet the vines remind me of the veins beneath my skin and I wonder if they should have been on the nursing building instead with this type of comparison. The vines branch out into tinier vines, but some...