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.