KAYLA AND CARRIE

CAPTURED WALKING THE GROUNDS OF THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM IN JAMAICA PLAIN, 7.12.08

By David Day

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I saw you walking around here a little while ago. Are you lost?

Carrie: No, we're just wandering. It's a nice day to wander. I've been here two or three times.

Kayla: It's my first time here. It's beautiful. I love it.

I'm lost. What have you been doing? Checking out the trees? What do you do at the Arboretum?

C: Wandering and talking. We sat in a tree for a few minutes.

Do you know what kind of tree it was?

C: [pointing] It was that way.

K: [laughing] We've been reading the labels!

C: That's the extent of what we know about that tree though.

Did you pick anything?

C: I broke a twig off a tree branch!

Yeah, you're not supposed to pick anything.

C: I didn't mean to! It was an accident!

And it's free too, which is nice ... though Harvard can probably afford it.

K: I bet Harvard can afford a lot more than that.

They could have, like, free gold bullion that we could just take with us.

K: But you couldn't pick it, that would be against the rules.