Now that it stays light out untill 8:00 in the evening here in Denver, I like to stop at Washington Park in the evenings for a short while just to enjoy the beauty of the park and the people-watching. It is a very pleasant and restful place, one of the nicest spots in Denver, and I am very lucky to live so close to it. When my mother Mary was alive and living with me, I would bring her here whenever I could. She used to love to sit by the children's playground and watch the kids having fun and blowing off extra energy. In the photograph on the left can be seen the historic Washington Park Boathouse, which was restored a few years ago and now used for weddings and other various functions.
It will be no surprise that the geese and duck population in the park is huge. In their flight south from Canada they evidently stopped off here and decided to stay for good. Kind of like all those Californians we have here now. And as you can see from the photograph on the right, there are plenty of young ducklings and gooselings around here this spring. The down side of all this is that you have to watch where you step when you walk around the park. Another problem is that they cross the streets at will, always assuming they have the right-of-way. Still another similarity with Californians.
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