Our Park List

Another morning at Floyd Lamb Park, and our walk around the ponds, through the trees, gave us many interesting sights:

-         A large group of boys in matching shirts were on a day-long hiking trip throughout the park, after eating breakfast made on huge grills in the parking lot

-         Fishing families were clustered around the ponds, in the shade in makeshift morning camps

-         A jogging woman hurried past speaking in Chinese on her cell phone

-         A line of horseback riders crossed the desert in the distance

-         A lone turtle floated in one pond, the tip of his nose the only part above the water

-         An Asian man surveyed his student who practiced Tai Chi in the shade. He walked around him slowly, leaning over now and then to inspect his stance.

-         A kid on a bike with his jogging mom passed by us two times, their speed around the park much greater than ours

-         A man meets us, dragged by his two leashed golden retrievers

-         A young couple eats breakfast at a picnic table

-         A grandma holds her granddaughter on her lap, watching the geese on the water before them

-         Two kids begin feeding ducks only to be instantly mobbed by hungry ducks and geese

-         A grandpa shows his grandson how to put a worm on a hook

-         One of the boys from the hiking group sits alone under a tree, upset by something another kid said, and a dad approaches and tries to make him feel better

-         A guy reads a newspaper while lying on his back in the grass

Then, from our blanket:

-         A very distant traffic hum

-         Flapping birds’ wings

-         Bugs buzzing

-         Distant kids’ voices

-         A tricycle rolling on gravel, and laughter

-         Rattling keys, as Jude has found my purse

-         The shifting of George on the blanket as he finds a better sleeping position

No need to look at my watch. That is the best kind of day.