Picture.

One of my favorite among the pictures I’ve taken. It looks better full-sized, here’s the link:

Tower Complex and Severance at dusk.

Life is tricksy.

Walking back from Peet’s in the Ville this evening, a walk I have made countless times, I had nary a thought but that my ears would freeze off. Just past Freeman, I happened to look to my right towards the Academic Quad with the Science Center in the foreground to its right and Stone-Davis to the far left. What a breathtaking sight. The combination of isolated lights from lit interiors and our orderly street lamps was so lovely.

It hit me at that moment that I’m graduating. Will I ever again live in a place so serene and beautiful?

What a trickster life can be. I’ve seen this same sight so many times without noticing it. The evening I first see how beautiful my campus is happens to be less than a week before I leave for good. At least I saw it.

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I thought I’d restart the habit of documenting the lovely little snippets of life that I encounter.

Today, while walking back from the library, I came across a tree. I don’t know what kind of tree it was, but it was clearly young. There was a little rock at the bottom with a date- 2003. I never knew that a few of the class trees were located between the library and my dorm!

I walked on. The 1950 tree was gorgeous. Aspen, perhaps? It’s trunk was white and it was very, very tall. Really phenomenal. Next to it was the 1932 tree. 1932! That’s amazing! Wellesley girls were planting trees in 1932!

It was amazing to see how large and stately the trees have become in 60 years, 80 years. I thought trees grow slowly, but no, they can be pretty amazing!

I don’t know where the other class trees are, but I think I’ll walk around campus and look for them. The class tree is something that each class plants in their junior year. Hm, speaking of trees, I’m not sure where the 2010 tree is. I’ll look for it!