eve_prime | Day 1174: College Hill

Today's adventure was J's eye doctor appointment. He wanted to check the prescription on his glasses and also he'd like to try contact lenses, since wearing a fencing mask for sword class while he's got glasses on is no fun. Since he was going to have dilated eyes and it's pretty bright outside anyway, I drove him. And while he was doing his eye exam, I went on a walk in the neighborhood.

The eye doctor is at the base of the middle of the east side of College Hill, a generally fancy neighborhood about ten blocks by maybe six blocks. It's named for some long ago college, not the university. I walked up the hill to a dead end and found a pretty little path to the next street:

When I arrived at the little path, I saw a small Steller's jay playing with a scrub jay! Normally the two types of jays are in different neighborhoods. Maybe they were just harassing each other rather than playing; it's probably hard to tell the difference with jays. They didn't stay still to be photographed.

Emerging on the other end of the path, I found that I was in the neighborhood where one of D's friends lived while in high school. There were lots of flowers today; also lots of kids were walking home from the nearby middle school.

Eventually I went back down the hill, where I saw a second unusual sight - a rose bush growing up through what looked to be a peach tree - the rose was about 15' tall!