Tyler Starr
17 September 2008 from 1520 to 1539
Location: On a bench under a large tree on the northern edge of campus, just off the northeast corner of Eaton Hall
Weather: 77 ̊ F, constant breeze at about 5 mph, sunny, 43% humidity
General: It’s strange, but this area of campus, despite its beauty, is rarely visited by students. I’m under the shade of a gigantic tree. It’s only about 60 or so feet high, but at the base, its leaves extend as widely as the tree is tall. Its trunk is about 6 feet in diameter. The main base of the trunk extends about 10 feet up, where it diverges into many large limbs. Some of the limbs twist and turn in all sorts of convoluted shapes. The bark is a light brown, flaky in parts, and smooth in others. The trunk is covered in tumor-like knots (see picture). The leaves are palmately lobed like a maple leaf, but with many small fingers off each of the three main extensions. In many places, small spots of moss are growing on the branches of the tree. The shape of the entire tree is interesting—it gets very wide at the base, and stays that wide all the way until the top. Due to one extended limb, from a certain angle, the shape sort of reminds me of a snail (see picture, the little ball on the left looks like it’s a different tree, but it’s really part of the main tree). As seems to be the theme recently, I also saw a squirrel foraging out on the lawn north of Eaton Hall.
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