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“Mother Earth
Mother Earth
Mother Earth
Take pain away”
– Jesu
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South Bend is unique, in a way, because you go out into nature not only to escape the homogenous masses (not that South Bend really has homogenous masses), pollution and unwanted noises, but to escape aggression, too, from humanity itself. I found my mouth making a shape it hasn’t made in a while during my trip out to this pond, a shape I used to make in my youth during relaxed times.
This pond is situated right across the street from Irish Hills apartments. In general, there’s such a rustic feel about the South side. Its hills and undulations bely the character-laden care taken in the neighborhoods’ architecture. Great street names emerge on unique overlooks like “Clyde,” “Leer” and “Golfview,” and the neighborhoods often tease grid shape with curves tree-grooved inlets.
True to form, the wildlife out here seems too quick to catch on camera. In addition to a couple brilliantly colored dragonflies, right away I saw one of those fat little beasties scurrying the best it could laboriously into the underbrush, in flight of me. It must have been a beaver, or something, though I’m definitely no expert.