Ear Elephant

Today I went to the park.

And now that I told you this, I feel that I should explain to you all what this entails, as well as a pictoral demonstration of what the park looks like:

Now I don't use the main entrance like everybody else does.
Whenever I'm in this area, I leave my car somewhere, walk to the church,
then go through the parking lot, across the train tracks, and along
a secret path through the woods into the backside of the park.

I really don't like to drive somewhere unless it really sucks to
walk to where i'm going, or if I have many things to transport.

Here we see a properly mown path, surrounded

by unmown areas of grasses and plants.

There's a part where trees live in the middle

of the path. This might be my favorite part.

Here it is again coming back.

This one photo right here was taken later.

Flars

This part goes down the hill a bit

The part on the left is between two paths. It used to have of scrubby trees and bushes.
(Many of which were dead)

Some years ago, somebody chopped them down. Then the place looked unkempt for a
while, because not a lot happened after the choppening. But now the current regime is
making the park more of a nature-friendly place, with paths for people, and also letting
nature do whatever it wants with a lot of the land.

Am I going to narrate almost every photo on here, Probably.
You can ignore the words if you wish and just look at pictures.

These are flars. I know you know that, I do not care. Flars.

There's a wall of stones under this mound, going all the way across the park

except where the path is. There's a lot of stuff growing here. I have old photos

somewhere else where you can see the wall.

New England has these walls everywhere. When this used to be farmland

hundreds of years ago, people built walls of stone along property lines,

because there were so many rocks in the soil that there wasn't anywhere else

to put them. If you go into the woods, you'll see rock walls all over the place.

There's trees along the edges of the part.
What's beyond the trees? Industry.

Sorry I don't have industry pictures.
This is a park story, not an industry story.
Industry would be earelephant to the topic.

Sometimes there are birds in the path. I wait for the birds to move.

I could just keep walking. I try to tell the birds that I'm not

planning to eat them at this point, but they never listen, they

just run away scared. Which I can understand, for maybe I

will eat them in the future. I have no way of knowing.

Some birds will run away from me in the direction that i'm walking.

Then will believe I'm coming after it, but no, I'm going this way anyway.

It's an obvious path.

Here's the field near the parking area

I found a whatever this thing right here is thing.

Here's the mowed field near the parking area,
which holds about 7 cars comfortably.
(the parking spots, not the field)
I think it's about 140 feet long.

Here's an info booth and garbage cans.
Cans are a good place to put garbage. Always remember that.

There's a mini library with nature-related books, such as those pertaining to
the identification of plants and whatnot. Maybe I will revise this post later
with a more extensive exploration of the available books selection.

You may be able to see the titles from this photo, but not the ISBN numbers.

There are picnic tables, for people who think they're too
good to eat off the floor. Town parks always have
to cater to the snooty taxpayers, you know.

Ohhhhh noooo, we can't eat FOOD without a TABLE!

Right beyond the tables is a river. And there's the bridge which one
must cross in order to get from the town to the park. there's also some
human commercial structures on this side of the bridge. (Not pictured)

Upon closer inspection, one discovers that the river is indeed filled with water.

Do you like for free food? Not so fast, the government wants a piece of that.

I wouldn't mind taxes so much if they used some of it to protect the
people with some kind of safety net. Money does not trickle down.

There's a more secluded trail near the river.

Look at this tree.

I took all these photos today. Can you believe it?

The river has some rocky parts, and in certain places you can hear rivery sounds.

I see people fishing here sometimes. I don't ask to see permits. That's not my job.

I do not care if you fish with a pole. The problem is the huge ocean net fishers.
But we do have a lot of people to feed. I am aware of that.

Here's another path, on the other side of the big field.
We're going back to the far end of the park now.

A lot of the park is an nature preserve, they're trying to grow stuff on purpose.

Here's more of the path. As you can tell from the photo, it looks pathy.

Flars

Little trail from the path to the water.
It had a sign like we saw earlier.

I did this walk about 5 hours ago, and muy feet are still soggy.

Alright I just took off my socks. I'm still wearing pants though.
I don't know what's wrong with me. I hate pants.

If you ever see me taking off my pants in your presence, don't worry.

I don't have any kind of agenda, just taking off my pants, that's all.

It could become a problem if I'm in a supermarket or other public place.

Here I am by the river again.

Here we can see piles of old trees that were chopped up for whatever reason.
They are now being used to feed the fungus which encompasses us all.

This one probably fell over in a storm. It happens a lot. there are
fallen trees all over the place. Not much you can do about that.

Here's a grove of those white and purple flars.
I don't know what they're called.

I can probably look them up in one of those books.

I feel kinda dumb not knowing the names of plants and funguses.

The path splits here, you can go to the right and find a bridge leading to
human settlements. or straightishly left to more park.

I choose the straightishly left path.

Here's another rock wall. Beyond this is denser woods.
Still technically the park, but more woodsy than parksy.

Behind that tree up ahead there's a person. I don't bother people around here,
this is a place people go when they don't want to be bothered. Also there's a
plague going around, and I don't want to get infected.

People who want to be bothered go to social media.
If you're on social media, feel free to bother whoever you want.
That's why we all use it.

More flars.

Here's a nice patch of tall grass. It's very pretty.
Probably gonna catch Lyme disease again just by looking at it.

I had Lyme disease a few years ago. Now I can't eat wheat anymore. It sucks.

Like I don't really care, except it's in everything.

There's more river down here, it kind of goes around the bottom point of the place.

On the other side of the river, you can see a fence. And behind the trees, human settlement.

The entire time I'm in this park, I can hear animals making their noises.
Lots of different bird sounds, bug sounds, and chipmunks.

Chipmunks are very unstrategic chirpers. If there's a chipmunk
nearby, it will make a loud chirp and run away.

I didn't know you were there until you made yourself known, chipmunk.
Good job announcing that you're hidinig from me. Very smart.