It looks just like a tree, but it isn’t. I don’t know what kind of tree it is or anything about it, except it sits in the Swamp Walk at Arthur Marshall Fish and Wildlife Center. I look at it for a few seconds as I do a loop.
No one cares for it, but it cares for us, dancing in the wind, casting reflections off the mossy water. In the Spring it will sprout leaves again and the whole swamp will take on a new charm. If you walk by, it probably won’t look like this; it changes its appearance by season and time of day. And of course, my camera sees it differently from your eyes.
People look for gators and birds and our Barred Owl in residence as they walk around the swamp on the boardwalk. People want a Disneyland type experience from a nature setting. Seeing me with my camera, they ask if I have seen anything. I always reply, “Yes I have.”
