summer
After multiple rains, Core Creek Park is showing off. The leaves look freshly rinsed - more spring than summer. Shades of green are everywhere. Every path is lined with color - soft, deep, vibrant, layered, and alive.
The regulars are back: dog walkers, geese, deers - everyone enjoying the calm.
For a long time I was not in a mood to post something in this season of the covid-instigated turmoil. Just a year ago it was the consensus that we really were living in the most peaceful time in human history. What an irony!
A scene I drove by today reminded me of the peaceful summer life and made me wonder ‘Isn’t it the last one?’.
I would prefer, however, to stay positive. As Golda Meir once coined: ‘Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself’.
Eclipse-shmeclipse. For the li'l old Newtown it was just another midday at the office. And quite a humid midday, really hot on the sunny side of deserted trafficless streets.
Only a couple of single enthusiasts and several small groups with kids waited for the beginning of the show at the shore of Lake Luxembourg.
The show started on time. Unfortunately, because of the cloudy sky, it started behind the curtains. The viewers waited patiently for occasional glimpses of the Sun.
And their patience was rewarded with this amazing view.
The park main attraction is the Neshaminy Creek. Local families stroll along its idyllic shores and explore numerous ways to practice patience, such as throwing pebbles into the water, pretending fishing, or walking their dogs.
But to every rule there is an exception - and there are daring people ready to demonstrate it. Just the other day I came across such amazing bunch of good sports - a group of parents and their kids that occupied shores of a small branch of the Creek with a bridge over it. Apparently parents were nostalgic about good old times when creeks were clean and the living was easy. So, they encouraged the kids to jump off the bridge into the shallow water and captured these priceless family moments with their iPhones and tablets.
The parents, kids, and innocent bystanders - they all seemed to be having a lot of fun.
Well, no fun can last forever. A cop came and spoiled the party.
Tired but satisfied, the party left the scene of their glory.