river of green
Last week, while riding home on the train, I was rather startled to see, well, nothing.
That's not entirely true.
What I saw previously I could no longer see. It was replaced by a wall of green leaves. Buildings, homes, streets, parks, all had "suddenly" become hidden behind trees fully engulfed in leaves.
And as the train passes by, the trees ripple like waves in a river.
Spring is always a surprise for me, I'm not sure why...it just seems like what were small buds just starting out, suddenly burst forth into fully formed leaves. I know this is not the case and I can even watch the trees foliate, but there's something in my brain that seems locked to the winter scene. And then a switch is flipped and I realize that we have shade again and the world has been turned green.