A Sunday afternoon stroll

May 26th, 2008 admin Posted in Travel | No Comments »

Kavita and I walked around Lake Raleigh in the NCSU campus. Here Kavita discovered a treasure of mulberry trees lining the lake. She was so excited, she started to eat the mulberry fruit within 3 seconds of the discovery, without giving me a chance to think through the implications of eating some wild berry off of a wild tree. She enjoyed them so thoroughly that I was tempted to try it out, and it was, indeed, sweet. Later, we went to the DH Hill library (the main NCSU library). I wanted to show Kavita the Digital Medial Lab at the NCSU library. We also tried the long-distance wireless talking device on the lawns outside the library. This is a pair of pink stone (or cement) blocks with a concave piece gouged out of each and made to fact each other, with about a 100 feet between them.

I came back home and double-checked to make sure that we had not ingested something crazy and found out that what we ate was, most likely, morus rubra (red mulberry). Here is the wikipedia link to mulberry.

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