Descriptive Essay: The Kindred Baseball Diamond

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The smell of the freshly cut grass and newly painted lines, there’s just nothing like it. The Kindred baseball diamond is one of my favorite places. The field just feels like a second home. I love everything that is at the Kindred baseball diamond, the smells and the sights after the sun starts to set. There are many scents to smell at the Kindred baseball diamond all most all the scents are very good. One scent that isn’t very pleasant is sometimes when you can smell the waste holding pond. The other scents such as the freshly cut grass, the watered down sand, and the smell of the pine trees behind the baseball diamond are all very great scents to smell. One of my best memories was made on the Kindred baseball diamond. Also, some of my closest

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