Since I’ve moved to the graduate students apartment 3 years ago, I’ve been running or walking around the cross-country trail at least once a week, I’ve also taken the shuttle bus to and from the main campus many times a week. But I don’t understand how I could have not noticed the wild raspberries ripening among the many many wild raspberry bushes along the trail and the road during the previous summers.

How could I have missed them the past 2 summers? I only started noticing the wild raspberries when someone pointed it out to me during a hiking trip early this month.

And then, all of a sudden, I’m seeing them everywhere. They are everywhere along the trail. People are parking their cars haphazardly along the road just to pick free raspberries. I’ve even picked and ate a few.

Why didn’t I notice the wild raspberries before? It’s perplexing and somewhat troubling.

Anyway, we saw a snake during the hiking trip.