Today was a beautiful autumn day - a day that would be hard to spend inside when you could be outside enjoying the cool breeze, the warm sun, the blue sky, and the gorgeous autumn trees!
It was a perfect day to go to George George Park - a beautifully landscaped place with two fountains, many bridges, creeks, ponds with geese, clean picnic areas, gardens, and beautiful TREES!
In the middle of the park is a children's Play Area. It is for climbing, swinging, sliding, and pretending. Shelley and I played with Matthew there for awhile before we ate our lunches on a picnic table under the shade of a beautiful old tree. For awhile we played on a black twine structure that looked like a spider web. We all had to be "spiders". Matthew knows that neither one of us likes spiders, so he let us be "little tiny" ones!
The trees are just beginning to turn colors and they are so beautiful! Here is a view across the park.
We crossed several bridges on a walk through the park. This was the view from one of the bridges of a little creek running through the property.
I don't know what happened to my frame around this picture - I did make one - but it is still a great picture of Shelley and Matthew at the top of one of the slides in the play area. Shelley actually went down the slide with Matthew and she is eight months pregnant!! She gets around very well, but it is getting tougher to keep up with an active almost three year old.
We stopped by a large pond to see all of the geese swimming in the water and getting food in the mud and grass. There were also some cute ducks.
Matthew was very nice to pose by this big pine tree. It kind of shows how little he is, but most of the tree got cut off.
Matthew was getting tired of pictures by this time, but we "snuck" this one in. I wanted one that showed some trees in the background, but he would have nothing to do with any more pictures.
We had a great time - what a wonderfully beautiful place! Here is the pool around one of the fountains. There used to be a sign that said "No swimming!" in front of it. One day Terry and I were walking here and saw two girls actually swimming in this pool. Their mother had brought a change of clothes and towels to dry them when they got out. Go figure!!Michigan is so beautiful in the autumn! I had a great time being outside. I am so grateful that we have these times together. I love my grandson very much - he's the best! Soon we will have another grandchild to love and play with -can't wait! :)
In the midst of all of the chaos in the world right now with the economic crisis and the crazy Presidential campaign, it struck me how peaceful it was at the park today and how peaceful we can feel in the middle of a world at unrest because we have a family who loves us and a God who holds us in his hand!
2 comments:
Great pictures, sis! What a fabulously beautiful little park. Glad you could all enjoy it together ... miss you!
I love this park and often go there with my son. Unfortunately, today will be the last time I feel safe going by myself with my young son. We were by the beautful waterfall, waiting quietly for the ducks that some times appear. A woman, in her late 60s, sat down not far from us and lit a cigarette. I asked her if smoking was allowed in the park (it is unfortunately) and she responded that she didn't know or care. Another woman, her daughter, I assume approached with her son, a little younger than my 2 year old and started telling me it was a free country. I said that I knew it was, but it was too bad that she wanted to ruin our children's health by smoking near them, and my son and I began to walk away. The older, smoking woman yelled at me, using foul language, as we left. The young er woman also began to yell and I felt very unsafe. I waited near groups of people until they left, fearing they might try to hurt me or my child as I secured him in his car seat. I know it's not illegal to smoke outsidem but why would someone with a discusting think they have a right to verbally assault me and my child for expressing our wish that they not smoke near us.
The younger woman drove a Ford Edge with a personalized plate "edgehog".
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