Why Did You Notice What You Smell?

i noticed a pattern started to emerge in my observations. How old is the oldest tree in this park? What kinds of birds were those? What does that monument say? These are all obvious questions, but truthfully, i'd never asked them before,. or maybe i always thought the answers didn't really matter. I left the park for the first time wanting to know the answers and yes, i looked them up on my phone. It turns out washington square park is home to some of the oldest trees in manhattan, over 300 years old. Those were probably bluejays i was hearing. And that monument says it's to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of george washington