Rose Dickson
12 November 2008
1609 – 1637 hours
Willamette Riverbank in Riverfront Park, Salem, OR, USA
60 degrees, rain
Today was my friend Hannah’s 19th birthday and above anything else she wanted to go on a long walk. Any other day this would have sounded like a fantastic idea, but today it was pouring down rain and all I could think about was curling up and watching a movie on my warm cozy bed. Well, birthday girl got her way and we walked all the way down and around Riverfront Park. As we started walking my body finally warmed up to the idea and I realized today how much fun it is to walk in the rain. Letting loose, dropping the hood and accepting there is no chance of staying dry. When we got to Riverfront, I told Hannah I knew this really great rocky spot down by the river, to my surprise however, the spot I had been talking of was completely filled with water. I remember writing my first field journal about the Carolina Grasshopper, now that whole area I was observing in was completely covered with water. The rain that is now sliding down my wet hair is also contributing to the already full river. I wonder what will happen if water levels keep rising? Is there something we, as humans, can do, like we have with the Mill Stream, to prevent flooding? I will have to come back in the spring and visit my, momentarily untouchable, favorite spot.
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