It was a great day in Clemson yesterday.......

Apr 11, 2008, 10:01 AM

The wife and I grabbed the blanket and the frisbie and headed to one of our favorite places on this planet.....Bowman field on a gorgeous spring day! This routine had been a common occurence for us in our CU days. The temperature was perfect, around 78, and the skies very blue. We put our blanket down at the top of the hill near the cannons so that we could have a perspective of the field and the surrounding area. The trees are just starting to bud so there is still a bareness. But the dogwoods and azaleas are all in their glory. The air was filled with that just mowed grass smell that typifies a day on Bowman.....you ALL know what I mean! But there also is sweet odor of magnolia and boxwood and the cuisine of downtown Clemson. Bowman is particularly busy today because the Army is having a demonstration. The band, "Picture me Free", is playing all afternoon and announces a new CD release party at Tiger Town S,aturday night! The field is replete with fribee players, students enjoying the band and activities arranged by the Army and ROTC like a climbing wall. They announce that James Davis is coming to sign autographs. As I sit there, the "talent" that passes by on this day is.....in a word....incredible! Bowman is a magnet for beautiful women. All afternoon, there is a steady stream of students walking through the field, coming and going in all directions. The traffic that passes in front of Bowman certainly is heavier and steadier than I ever remembered, but then again, there weren't 17,000 students going here when I attended in the Middle Ages. As I look 360, I see the orange and purple flowers planted at the feet of Tom Clemson as you drive up to Tillman, but I also see that ####### ticket cop in those mini whatevers giving out tickets, which even to this day, makes me start worrying about where I parked and how long I've been there! By now I've petted a hundred dogs as the students use this beautiful day to exercise not only themselves, but their pets. The wife and I sit there on the blanket thinking that afternoons like this used to be routine and where it all "started" for us! It makes you wonder where the time has gone....yet nothing really here has changed. Two Clemson graduate daughters later, 31 &n 27, and a granddaughter....but looking out on this day, for us, nothing has really changed!! For those four hours, I could not have been more relaxed, more visually stimulated or more contemplative. I love CU football and I love tailgating. But this spot....this area....is Clemson to me. And as the Army started packing up and leaving, we knew it was about time to leave also. We had worked up a tremendous thirst that only a beer outside at Tiger Town could quench. So, as we were leaving, I knew that this had been one of those very special Clemson days that only we CU grads could ever understand....you know what I mean?????????????

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It was a great day in Clemson yesterday.......

I'm blessed enough to see that every day, but

Clemson is great in the Spring

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Clemson is amazing...I ate outside at TTT yesterday too!***

Every Day at Clemson is a Great Day....correct ?***

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