time marches on

Log Cabin at David Rogers Park

 I was at David Rogers Park yesterday with my friend Dan. When we arrived there were a few cars. And adults with matching shirts and some children were walking over the hill away from us as we parked on the top of the hill. Usually there are no cars and no one around. It usually feels like you could spend the day and no one else would bother you.

One lady was waiting for something. She asked me if we had a child to drop off. She was waiting for a boy who had not shown up the day before and wasn't there today for camp. I opened the door of the truck and pointed inside at Dan and asked if she wanted him. 

She didn't seem interested in Dan as a day camper. Her loss.

I told her we were going to take pictures of the cabins and we would NOT be getting any of her kids in them. She tried to tell me / us that they had signed waivers for picture taking. I listened, but we had no interest in her kids who had all but disappeared over the hill and were heading toward the pickle ball courts.

She told us that one of the cabins was going to be town down. The one in the picture above.

That is sad.

It does however need to come down because it is old and falling down anyway. It is an accident waiting to happen for someone not paying attention to their surroundings.

The park is a great park. The cabins are the centerpiece and they are going to disappear.

One cabin at a time they will go.

Then I don't know if it will be a park at all.

From a distant observer the county doesn't seem to know what to do with the propery. They put in a (or some) pickle ball courts. The area is very thinly populated so I doubt few will use them and they are at the bottom of a hill behind trees, so they are nearly hidden.

They put in some flower feature. That is why we went. To see how that was working out. Not so good so far. It's early June so maybe there will be some flowers later. But for now it is plowed ground and mountains of mulch.

The day campers loved to climb up and slide down the mulch mountains. I'm sure that was not the goal or intent, but it looked like fun!

Time marches on...

... we will see what happens next...