Observer: Eloise Bacher
Date: 19 October, 2008
Time: 1620-1635
Location: Willson Park
Weather: Sunny but still a little chilly.

There's a faint smell of smoke in the air as soon as I walk into Willson Park, both wood smoke and cigarette smoke. There aren't any squirrels around, but there are lots of people. Someone is curled up under a gray blanket under one of the trees, a wheelchair beside him. There's a group of people settled under another tree near the gazebo. One of them has an electric guitar and is playing it softly, not any particular song, just background notes. It blends with the sound of the fountain.