summer '08: local destinations (+ fun for nothin')

Another free local destination...what could be better, really? Last weekend we spent a pleasant afternoon in the shade of a local park (shade was important, because it truly is still summer here) frolicking about with what you might call some suburban cows.

Most pleasing for me was just sitting back and watching the children play and work together.



It is so heart-warming to see them

genuinely and spontaneously helping each other.

Or, to watch a little one struggle to

accomplish a difficult challenge motivated

simply by the desire for a personal victory.
(Can you see the sandaled foot pushing

desparately up the side of that bovine?)

And then, to witness the sweet respite that comes with a hard earned victory.

Little Queen took a tumble and looked to me for a reassuring smile.

And then she got herself right back on the horse, er, I mean cow.