Thursday May 29

There is one of those giant pine cone producing trees growing in the park beside Crystal Pool. 

Julias says, "Ponderosa Pine". I am sure he is right. As the daughter of a forester I probably should have known as well. 

Here's the neat thing you can do with those cones besides just collect them and look at them. My friend says roll them in peanut butter and bird seed and hang them out for the birds. Neat.  That was yesterday. 

This morning on the crosswalk. 

I am noticing all the unusual sounds the vehicles are making. The school bus arriving to take the grade fives away on their overnight Camp Pringle trip had a clank clank as it turned the corner. 

A minivan going scrape and then a few moments later, scrape, caused by a loose piece hanging down on the undercarriage at the front. 

The deep rumble of a big pick up truck idling at the light. 

The squeak of the empty utility trailer bouncing over a dip in the road while being towed behind a white car. 

L