New Trees!

Today I saw some new (for this spot) trees being planted. Sadly, people you don't know usually get offended when you take pictures of them. Therefore, my picture of the people actually planting the trees is a little distant. It was strange to see the wrapped trees just sitting there, waiting to be put in the ground. I saw some men digging holes with shovels that seemed pretty shallow for such big trees. They didn't appear to be using the clamshell diggers and dirt prodders that we got to use on our service project while building the fence; they were only using pointed shovels.

I thought about how the roots of these plants must take really quickly since the hole was so shallow. I also thought about if they had dug up old trees in order to put these here. It's rare to see things like this in progress. This is similar to watching someone change the letters on the glowing signs with the black words; it's really rare. I'm always excited to see the process of things of whose process we normally don't consider.