(no subject)

It was a windy day here. At lunchtime as I walked along the boardwalk between the buildings, I saw the trunk of one of the big trees swaying slightly as I approached it. It seemed somehow uncanny, as if the tree were not just alive, but alive, like an Ent. The trunk was 2-3 feet wide in diameter near the base, and about 2 feet wide at my height... even though I've seen trees swaying in the wind before, to be right next to the trunk, and to see the motion not just up higher in the smaller branches, but way down there near the ground too... touching its side, even, feeling it press against my hand... Awe-inspiring, that such a giant towering thing nevertheless is flexible and alive enough to bend in the wind without cracking.