This piece of creative nonfiction was written as my final project for ENGL 3500 Environmental Literature in the fall of 2023. Having kept an "awareness journal" in a natural space throughout the semester as an assignment, I used my own experiences, observations, and reflections as the basis for a piece of prose in the style of the American nature writers we had studied in class. My professor selected this paper to be published in the English Department's journal of student essays.