DAY 6
04.10.07
TREE 7The tree I climbed today, I didn’t actually climb. It had fallen, died, and was starting to break apart. I started at the base of the trunk and walked up the tree using the branches to steady myself. Though I was never too far from the ground, I was nervous that a branch would break and I would fall. Sideways trees are also much bouncier than vertical ones. A few minutes after, I found a dead, mostly bones deer body. It was sunny and warm.
4-10-08: I hated having to make the image above so small but to fit it on the page I had to. If you strain your eyes on the far right part of the image you can see the orange speck where I tied my ribbon. I chose this tree because I was even more sore this day than the day before.
As for the deer body, besides my strange syntax on how I described it, it was pretty cool. I took some pictures.
TS
strange bedfellows
I like the composite picture, even though you did have to shrink it. It definitely gives the viewer more sense of place. What I did find odd, other than your “strange syntax” was the way you abruptly described the weather after the dead deer, and that it happened to be sunny and warm. It just seems like a strange thing to say after finding a dead animal. If you had given a little more transition, or even noted that you were happy that it was finally a warm day after it had been cold, it might have been a little less, um, well, I can’t think of a good word. Maybe watching “No Country for Old Men” earlier this week has really skewed my view of the world. Actually, I just read it again and a non-native english speaker might think you were saying that the dead dear was sunny and warm. ha ha! Now wouldn’t that be weird.
Re: strange bedfellows
Just wait, I have some more really screwed up sentences in entries to come. It’s like I am completely self taught in grammar. I’m a little more sophisticated than Nell. But not much.
dead stuff
Amherst friend, Katie Talmo, commented (through facebook) on the synchronicity of the fallen tree and dead deer. Strangely I had never put the two together as meaningful or even similar until she pointed it out. But looking at my entry now it is so obviously a common theme that I don’t know how I didn’t see it in the first place. I guess I just climbed a tree then found the bones and recorded the facts. The idea of writing a theme that connects the daily events in my journal only occurred to me late in the project, and often only in weak attempts. But maybe I don’t have to try, and more themes will present themselves naturally and serendipitously.