Celebrating in the park
May. 18th, 2024 11:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeThis afternoon, J and I went to visit our friends JC, MSC, and their daughter MJC, who celebrated her 3rd birthday about 10 days ago. At this age she is very chatty and energetic, running everywhere she goes. She was also quite enthusiastic about the birthday gift we brought her, a box of Duplos. Then J and JC left for an evening Magic tournament, and the three of us decided to go to Hendricks Park.
They live about three blocks from Hayward Field, which was hosting the state high school track championships, so parking had been challenging. What I was not expecting was that it would be much more so up the hill at Hendricks Park. The rhododendrons are in bloom, but that didn't explain it. After I circled multiple times through the small lot in the rhododendron dell and the larger lot in the forest, I gave up and parked in the neighborhood to the east and walked all the way back to them. I passed a celebration for some law school graduates, but that didn't account for the crowding either - then we entered the park and discovered that dozens of high school students were there in their prom dress and tuxedo finery, photographing each other before prom night. Aha!
We walked all through the park (MJC ran, that is), and eventually ended up on a bench, with MJC picking all the flowers she could find growing in the lawn and handing them to me or putting them in a big pile on the bench. We had lawn daisies, forget-me-nots, buttercups, and individual rhododendron blooms - the latter had been picked and left on the lawn by the high school students. Eventually it was all turned into a "salad" with lots of grass on top.
Here's the final flower salad, after MJC mashed it well with her hands:
Eventually we left it on the side of the lawn for the "bunnies" (not that anyone has ever seen a bunny in that park).
They live about three blocks from Hayward Field, which was hosting the state high school track championships, so parking had been challenging. What I was not expecting was that it would be much more so up the hill at Hendricks Park. The rhododendrons are in bloom, but that didn't explain it. After I circled multiple times through the small lot in the rhododendron dell and the larger lot in the forest, I gave up and parked in the neighborhood to the east and walked all the way back to them. I passed a celebration for some law school graduates, but that didn't account for the crowding either - then we entered the park and discovered that dozens of high school students were there in their prom dress and tuxedo finery, photographing each other before prom night. Aha!
We walked all through the park (MJC ran, that is), and eventually ended up on a bench, with MJC picking all the flowers she could find growing in the lawn and handing them to me or putting them in a big pile on the bench. We had lawn daisies, forget-me-nots, buttercups, and individual rhododendron blooms - the latter had been picked and left on the lawn by the high school students. Eventually it was all turned into a "salad" with lots of grass on top.
Here's the final flower salad, after MJC mashed it well with her hands:
Eventually we left it on the side of the lawn for the "bunnies" (not that anyone has ever seen a bunny in that park).
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Date: 2024-05-21 12:05 am (UTC)She is just darling and so intent on her flower salad. How sweet. :)
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Date: 2024-05-21 09:21 am (UTC)no subject
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