Date: 25 January 2025
Time: 4:34 pm
Location: Metal Bench on Preston Field Knoll
- suv rolls stop sign, doesn’t speed off but continues casually to next stop sign. seems to be in no hurry. brake lights flash, then it rolls that next sign too.
- crows, three, land in a tree.
- nobody in park. crows make a racket. squirrel digs in the snow.
- woman with curly-haired dog enters far side of park, passes merry-go-round, continues clockwise around path past tennis court, walks between playground equipment and swings, crosses basketball court, leaves park.
- nobody to be seen.
- sound of bus in distance.
- nondescript suburban noise.
- school bus stops at stop sign. chains gangle as it slows and again as it speeds away. only a few kids still on bus.
- car door slams shut.
- sound of bells (fake) at haverford school. it is 4:45 pm.
- jeep parks by stop sign. young woman gets out, carries bag to house on corner, enters.
- nondescript suburban noise.
- wm. henderson heating van turns at stop sign, drives up street.
- three cars in a row slow at stop sign.
- crow flies overhead.
- gray car pulls into drive. person gets out, goes to passenger side, carries bags of groceries (?) into house.
- woman jogs along sidewalk.
- postal truck stops as stop sign, turns right.
- squirrel hops through snow, stops, digs, continues hopping.
- woman with large black dog crosses street, walks along path to corner of park, crosses street again, walks away from park.
- two boys cut across field.
- group of runners (from haverford college?) talk loudly as they run down street.
- wm. henderson heating van (same one?) drives down street, turns at stop sign.
- black car hardly slows at stop sign. hardly slows at next one.
- blue subaru stops in front of house. man gets out. carrying nothing, he goes into house.
- more crows land in a tree. caw loudly.
- school bus driving other direction, stops at stop sign. but for the driver, it is empty.
- fake bells at haverford school chime.
- it is 5:00 pm.