My maple leaf!!

Time: 1607-1700

Date: 3 November 2008

Climate: slightly raining, not too heavy right now but has been 

Location: Walking on State St. towards Liberty St. from Willamette University campus

Walking down State St.  towards Liberty St. there are few people right now.  There are a few groups of people who look to be about 15 years old all huddled around benches and traffic light poles.  They do not look like college students; they look more like local high school kids.  They are usually in groups of about 4 or 5 when I see them around town, unless they are in huge groups and I’ve noticed that’s usually at night.  As I keep walking I notice a HUGE big leaf Maple leaf.  I got so excited because I remembered the contest for our class so I hid the leaf so I could get it on the way back from town.  As I continued walking I notices 2 trees that were not very tall but the trunks were absolutely huge! They were also very strange looking.  They were not very smooth, and did not look like trunks I had ever seen before.  They had bulges all over them and they reminded me of those trees that had half one kind of tree and then another tree grown on top of it.  But there wasn’t just one bulge, it was like one massive bulge.  I stopped to get a closer look at the bark and it was very hard, and solid, and not like I could pull it off.  While I was looking at the bark people were walking by staring at me like I am crazy. I don’t really mind though because I did look a bit crazy.  When I was returning to campus I almost forgot to get my leaf but I did remember.  It was right were I left it, which I was very happy about because it is huge and will be a good leaf for out contest.