Berries at bush park!

13 September 2008
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Bush Park by the stream.

Today some friends and I walked from Willamette University to Bush Park in hopes of gathering black berries. The weather is perfect today for this kind of activity, on arrival to the park we walked along the flat trails of the park and then cut down to a path by the stream in hopes of finding the berries. Inatly we were unable to find any black berries on all the black berry bushes. However we were able to find some berries on the other side of the bush. I found the solution to getting these berries by going into the stream and picking the fruit from that angle. It was most excellent the berries were delicious and wading in the stream to pick them was such a nice activity for a lazy Saturday. Although it is quite late in the season for berries there were many hidden clumps quite high so a friend went up into the tree and was able to pick them that way. So as our friend sat in the tree passing us berries I was able to appreciate the small stream that we were wading in. It was full of many smooth stones and if you looked close enough there are little organisms living in the stream. I also really liked watching the fallen leaves be taken past me by the current. Overall it was a very fun activity and I look forward to coming back to this park and watching it change through the seasons.