Blog Post #1: Aldrich Park at Night

The other night the fire alarm in my building went off in the early ours of the morning, and continued on for about fifteen minutes before we were informed that it was broken and it would probably be a short while before they could fix it. Instead of shivering in the cold night air with my hapless neighbors, I decided to take a walk to campus and back. When I reached Aldrich Park, I stopped at one of the concrete rails that overlooks much of the area and was taken aback by how breathtaking it all was. At night, Aldrich Park is only illuminated by the spherical tall lamp posts that dot its path ways, which provided an eerie atmosphere to the trees and grassy areas within the park that are not lit.  But these lampposts created an image, from my point of view, of glowing pathways amid an ocean of darkness. The white-lit paths snaked through the park, empty of visitors, and after gawking at the scene in front of me for several minutes, the posts beneath the lamps faded slightly from exposure so that they appeared only to be these floating spheres of light. In that moment, the landscape was magical and created a feeling of nostalgia that I didn't expect. It really was a great memory that came from a frustrating issue.