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Nature, and my adventures within
Mar. 11th, 2008 02:51 pmToday was a good day to be alive. Started off in a good mood, and I had toast with butter and jam for breakfast, and tea and applesauce, and got to eavesdrop on a couple of friends studying for their opera final, which was very entertaining. Then work. Then, I totally ate my salad and it was delicious. Then class. Very annoying, but I got to do lots of thinking about Hyde.
After class I decided that even though it's still cold, it's too sunny not to enjoy the day a little. weather.com says it's a few degrees above freezing, but I didn't feel a need to wear a hat and gloves, and I even had my coat open. So I dropped off my backpack downstairs and then ran back out and took a walk down to the pond. It was so nice. I was listening to Neo Universe, which really does make me happy. And almost no one was around, and it was very rough and untamed - there was mud and puddles, but also still patches of ice and snow. Very much the end of winter.
I went to this little area that almost no one goes to - or at least, I've never run into anyone there (although I've taken a couple of you there! Remember, Borscht? XD). But it's one of my favorite places on campus. It's this weird little valley that slopes down right behind some houses on one side, and on the other side is the president's back yard, but in between there's this very steep valley thingie with a little stream running through it, and there are a couple of stone bridges across the stream, and there are sort of little flat paths along the side of the walls of the valley, and a couple places where there are stone steps inserted into the hills. And there's a stone bench all tucked away that you really have to climb to get to. It's pretty even now, all covered with ivy and dead leaves and patches of snow. And you can see the bare tree branches as you look back towards the pond and the main path, and in the distance you can see one of the hills that surrounds Pioneer Valley.
( courtesy cut, so you can be in as good a mood as I am and not fume about people taking up space on your friends page! )
After class I decided that even though it's still cold, it's too sunny not to enjoy the day a little. weather.com says it's a few degrees above freezing, but I didn't feel a need to wear a hat and gloves, and I even had my coat open. So I dropped off my backpack downstairs and then ran back out and took a walk down to the pond. It was so nice. I was listening to Neo Universe, which really does make me happy. And almost no one was around, and it was very rough and untamed - there was mud and puddles, but also still patches of ice and snow. Very much the end of winter.
I went to this little area that almost no one goes to - or at least, I've never run into anyone there (although I've taken a couple of you there! Remember, Borscht? XD). But it's one of my favorite places on campus. It's this weird little valley that slopes down right behind some houses on one side, and on the other side is the president's back yard, but in between there's this very steep valley thingie with a little stream running through it, and there are a couple of stone bridges across the stream, and there are sort of little flat paths along the side of the walls of the valley, and a couple places where there are stone steps inserted into the hills. And there's a stone bench all tucked away that you really have to climb to get to. It's pretty even now, all covered with ivy and dead leaves and patches of snow. And you can see the bare tree branches as you look back towards the pond and the main path, and in the distance you can see one of the hills that surrounds Pioneer Valley.
( courtesy cut, so you can be in as good a mood as I am and not fume about people taking up space on your friends page! )
