Jsmith park

At least my favorite tree is still there. Its been forever since I walked through the park- enough time for a landscaping company, hired by the city to make the park handicap-accessible, to rip a web of long, wide trails from the ground. The trails are shaped and stripped bare of vegetation- the machinery and gravel are all ready for work above the restoration areas. Even the restoration area, however, is seeing it's share of abuse. A braid of trails edged in plastic orange fence leads through the prairie to the new viewing deck.
Even nature has done it's part! Last week's severe storms have left the grass in huge mats- it all lays on the ground now. Trees have shed many branches and the older, dead ones have fallen.
Even the big metal barn-building at the parking area has been hit!
A strip of sheet-metal from the front door is bent in the trees of the fence-row to the east, one from the back door is peeled half-way down and all of the goodies inside are finally visible!
All sorts of cool old farm equipment- from tractors to pull-behinds and even a decaying saddle.
Nothing real special on my little walk, but Jsmith is always a pleasure.

Blue Sage, Salvia azurea, in seed.