colors and plants

so today i was walking home from the university housing office and noticed something about the hedge around one of the parking lots.

this hedge has two kinds of plants, planted in an alternating pattern -- on a broadleaf and the other an evergreen. juniper i think. i knew that. fall quarter i walked by this hedge everyday to and from one of my classes. thing is -- through the fall and the winter too both plants were just green. the were even very similar shades of green. so despite having two kinds of plants, it was just a green hedge. it did its job of blocking the view of the ugly parking lot and not much else.

turns out the broadleaf plant is one of those where the new leaves in the spring grow red then turn green later in the season. so walking by it today, it was alternating bands of green (from the evergreen) and red.

it was pretty cool looking.

more things one notices on the one night a week one doesn't have homework

today seems to be my day for noticing random things around campus...

took a walk just now an i noticed a lot of things i don't normally because most of the time i actually have somewhere to be.

first thing was the sky. it was raining and the sun was setting, but the light was still pretty bright. the rainclouds made the sky this kind of flat silvery-blue. and the surface looked really smooth, like blue metal. and the light gave everything else a sort of bluish tint.

the daffodils are starting to come up and bloom. most are still just green stems and leaves, but there's this one white variety that are already in full bloom. the light made them look blue.

there's also some trees with these pink flowers, which i had noticed in lots of places before. but i found a walkway that brought me up to a landing where i could look right at the flowers from literally inches away. next time i get a chance, i think i'm going to go take pictures of those flowers from that close.

(note to self: rain + the pollen from those trees = slippery concrete)