Observer Name: Kaitlyn Rice
Date: 10 September 2008
Time: 1507 hours
Place: Mill Stream
Weather: Sunny and warm, hot in direct sunlight
I have a new location today in the central part of campus. A leaf just rode past me on the ripples of the stream. I could find almost a certain amount of humor in watching it bob up and down. This tiny, yellow leaf on the ride of its life while others just hang (ha, no pun intended) out on the reaching tree branches. Of course, little things like this happen every day sometimes noticed, but often times not. A tree--this one older than the Birch on the Kaneko grounds, shelters me. The shade is my refuge from the heat, without it, I would not be at this post. As I glance downstream, the Mill Stream's "W" appears, from my point of view, as an oblong "S". People dot the banks of it, some in chairs, other just sprawled on the grass. It is the picturesque setting Willamette would send to prospective students on a postcard. The steram flows past me to the west, ocean-bound, or more familiar, Willamette River-bound. The bottom of the stream is caked with dark, spotted rocks. Like icing on that cake, a mossy green plant lies. In the background, sirens and then an airplane are heard, and I am brought back to reality.
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