...years pass, I will always remember the warm summers and the cold winters that I spent as a little girl in Strawberry Valley. * Body: * Setting * I had a love-hate relationship with those three hour drives to the mountain. * Scenery (Desert) * Dry/Barren * Rocks * Car games * A-Z * I Spy * Climax (tr. One weekend…) * Caves * Four wheeling * Fishing * Spending nights around the fire * Ending * Family * Time with dad * Ability to get lost within what mother nature has created * Conclusion (tr. In the end) * Although I no longer get to take trips to the mountain, it is a memory that will stay close to my heart forever. Mountain Memories From a young age, I can remember the smell of the trees and turns in the road that led us to the cabin. This was a drive that I remember taking several hundred times throughout my childhood. These drives took me far from the big city to a small village where I could truly embrace Mother Nature’s creation. No matter how many years pass, I will always remember the warm summers and the cold winters that I spent as a little girl in Strawberry Valley. I had a love-hate relationship with the three hour drives to the mountain. Trips from Las Vegas to Strawberry Valley mostly consisted of the dry and barren desert. As I watched out my window, I could see a...
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...The Bean Called Peanut When given this writing assignment, I first thought of all the things I know about a peanut. I thought of the simple things like a peanut is a nut that is brown and grows inside a pod. What I did not immediately think about what the actual purpose of this essay—to write about what I observed about the peanut given to me by my instructor. I had grabbed five peanut shells out of the large bag that probably came from Costco. I chose one to observe and I decided on the one that seemed to have the most character on the outside. At first sight, the pod seemed to be brittle and weak due to the breakage of the outer shell which exposed the root-like veins. It was disproportionately shaped where one side was almost twice as large as the other side. The first thing that came to my mind when I looked at the shape of this peanut was the ultrasound picture of a fetus. It was bent in the center and one side looked like a head. I was immediately distracted by the thought of whether the peanut was salted or unsalted, so I licked the shell to find that it was salted. The texture against my tongue was rough and almost fuzzy and I could also feel the pores and veins of the inner part of the shell. I began to rub the shell with my finger and experienced similar feeling as I did with my tongue, but against my skin it reminded me of the how the bottom of my dog’s paws feel. I examined the imperfections of the shell and found a small pin size hole at the tip of...
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