Blog 8: Nature Freewrite and Brainstorming

-The park by my house, school 20 park -spent a lot of time there as a child during elementary school recess and after care -played "oregon trail" and "house" while running around in the grass -the "princess" tree that split into two sections which made it look like a throne, big enough for someone small to sit in which is what we used to do when we played pretend -the jungle gyms just got torn down last week, which had writing all over them and were covered by weeds all around -tire swings -playing in the mud and making clay out of it -the huge puddle when it rained that we would pretend was a lake -the basketball court/kickball from elementary school where i fell in 3rd grade and fractured my wrist -the huge meadow of grass and flowers that i lied in with my ex boyfriend for 3 hours one sunny spring afternoon -the park benches -the gazeebo, where all the bad kids go to smoke and drink at night, and i spent a lot of times in there talking to friends for hours, being with steve one of the first nights we met, writing all over the walls of it, climbing over the sides. -playing manhunt in the dark at the park -the summer we all LIVED at the park because my old best friend had to work at the daycare there from 9-3 -the spinning thing, for lack of a better name, that we would spin children on, which backfired one day when we spun some kid so fast he fell off and threw up =/ -the park looks different every season. in autumn the leaves all change colors and cover the ground. in winter the trees are bare and the grass usually is frosted. the ground is usually more damp and soggy too. in spring the trees are green and full and the grass is greenest and full of flowers. in the summer when it gets too hot and dry the grass gets brownish.