Wes’s Life

So it’s Blog Action Day today, and I believe I am supposed to talk a bit about the environment. So it makes perfect sense for me to talk about a small bit of environment I walk past on Tuesday and Thursday: the duckpond.

It’s just a lake between a parking lot and the rest of campus, yet it is a lot more than that to me. I started parking in that particular parking lot out of necessity, as the other parking lots were regularly full when I had class. It’s about a ten minute walk from my car to the classroom. Yet, I keep parking there even with a less students parking closer. But why?

Well, I love walking by the duck pond. I get to see the ducks, the geese and the squirrels. I love the trees canopying overhead and the shade they supply. I love the irregularities in the asphalt created by the roots of trees much older then the asphalt. And then there’s the bridge; a wooden number, disarrayed by the same predicament as the asphalt. It’s not very big, but its so picturesque.

I guess my only issue with this area is complete lack of concern show to it from the rest of campus. There’s usually trash floating around and a dirty film on the water. They demonstrate a complete lack of concern for the wildlife in the pond, which includes fish among the fowl. I wish everyone had the same appreciation of this small body of water as I do. Maybe then, it would be as good as I believe it is.