It was in the slow fade from glowing summer to crisp, biting autumn that this project began. In the dying embers of the summer heat, I entered into an exploration of dialogue and attunement in the environment with my essay Arguing with the Madronas. Taking influence largely from my first Writing Studies course, I began to consider rhetorical theory and metaphor in their applications to Ecocriticism as well as the implications of the digital on our interactions with the environment. Over the course of the season I discovered new modes of awareness and models of thinking. I entered into dialogues through drawing, photography, conversation, meditation, and I experimented with expressing those through digital media. As the sky started to grow sullen with the approach of winter and the lingering leaves of fall dwindled, I conducted a series of interviews, two of which were between me and various trees. A conversation with a tree can be more evocative than one might expect, and in those interviews I learned a great deal about how we can attune ourselves to our environments.