Squirrels and waterfalls

H.R. Waller
Date: 13 September, 2008
Time: 1400
Place: Walking through downtown Salem to Konditorei bakery and café.
Weather: Sunny, hot, 88 degrees, slight breeze.

Today I walked about a mile from campus to a delicious cake shop/café that I would HIGHLY recommend. On the walk my roommate and I saw a big stream running randomly through an otherwise highly urban feeling area. There was a little waterfall and tons of vegetation in the forms of trees and bushes gathering around the water as if trying to beat out others for a prime spot. The temperature felt cooler leaning over the concrete bridge/fence to observe. On our walk we saw a record number of squirrels and crows. When we saw a tree with the strange markings up and down the bark in one spot, I got to explain to my roomie what we had learned in class the first day about how squirrels urinate on the trees and rub it in on one spot. As we walked under a tree with smallish oblong leaves I was almost struck by a dead leaf dangling down by an invisible thread before me. Is this a spider web, or silk from a worm?

Photo by Hannah Buchner