Boardwalk

A few years ago, the city closed the boardwalk at a park nearby. To be fair, it was sort of falling apart and was probably unsafe, but it had been a favorite place of ours for years, so we were all very sad. But it is now in the process of being rebuilt and part of it is open, so today Katrina, Zane, and i went to see it.

It's going to be awesome when it's finished, but it's weird to see it right now, because everything has been cut back or cut down so that they're able to do the building. There were areas where there were loads of trees that had been chopped down. Also, it seems less...marshy than it used to. I don't know if it's just not the right time of year for the swampiness to be in full swing or if they somehow made it less marshy, or if i'm just remembering it wrong, but it seemed like there was more dry land. So that's weird. And yet! It was really pretty and we took way longer to walk it that we really needed to because we kept stopping to see if there were frogs or turtles or other life in the puddles, or to look at the footprints to figure out if they'd been made by a dog or a raccoon or a deer or what. At one point, three deer were grazing in a field near us, utterly unconcerned by our proximity, so we had to stand still and watch them for several minutes.

It helped that it was a perfect, amazing, beautiful day today. The sun was shining and it was in the high seventies, and i would be completely content if the weather stayed exactly like this for another month.