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my place at school is across from a small park/community center and every day there are kids from the neighborhood playing soccer or little league. it's nice to see. i don't really use that park though because it's just a small athletic field and i don't play any sports.

i'm a little park-ed out right now because i just finished a course on public space and we talked about parks all semester long.

frederick law olmsted designed central park. and his sons were in the business too, so they built some of those "olmsted" parks as well.

― the claudine longet invitational (get bent), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 04:34 (seventeen years ago) link

frederick, why did i think his name was henry? duh.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 04:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Loaner dogs are good

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/157/343575416_675cee4c85_o.jpg

This is so true. I think I make a better pet sitter/dog walker than dog owner.

I think it was Frederick Olmsted who did Seattle's parks - he had a vision of greenspace ringing the city.

― jaq (jaq), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 04:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I make a better pet sitter/dog walker than dog owner.

it usually works out this way

― friday on the porch (lfam), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 06:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Since I don't have a dog at the moment :( I don't really go in parks. I just feel strange walking around a park without a dog, plus you see all the other dog owners and they ask where your dog is, and...

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i spent many a sunday morning this spring/summer waiting for my hangover to pass by sitting under a tree in wicker park with a large iced coffee and half a pack of cigarettes. i'd usually bring a book in case the people watching got boring but it rarely did.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

oh and I forgot to brag on st louis' forest park--bigger than central park I think and full of great free stuff. the history museum, art museum, and the zoo are all there and they are all free!

there was an article in the paper about the lack of greenspace in a booming exurb of st louis, it grew so fast and the city didn't set aside any land....

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yes, I love parks.

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Thursday, 4 January 2007 05:57 (seventeen years ago) link

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