26 September 2008

Out for a walk-9-24-2008


Time: 2243-2301
Climate: about 50 degrees, a bit windy
Date: 24 September 2008
Place: Bellevue Street 
So i am walking southeast down Bellevue Street towards Sparks Field.  I needed a break from my studies so i decided to talk around.  While i was walking i noticed hundreds of pine cones that had not been there a few nights before.  I noticed they were from large trees that tower over the hedges surrounding the tennis courts.  They are so much bigger than i had expected for trees merely along the outskirts of a parking lot.  The trees had long pines as opposed to leaves.  The fallen pines were brown and covering the ground in a layer and in some spots it was about 1-cm thick of dead fallen pines.  The pine cones were all over and it made me wonder what these trees are.  After trying to figure them out the closest that i found to their physical attributes would have to be the Ponderosa Pine but for some reason i do not think that is right.  I took one of the pine cones to take back for further research but i had no such luck.  
I begin to look around and notice that i cannot see any stars in the sky and the ones that i think i can see are so faint that they might as well not be visible.  It is sad because even though i am from such a big city i can still see hundreds, thousands of stars most nights.  Here it is almost too overcast to see them every night.   I love to look at the sky.  Whenever i can see the stars i try to locate the north star just so that everywhere i go i can find it.  But it is definitely not visible in plain sight tonight, unfortunately... 

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