More Weekend Wandering
We stayed close to home again this weekend, but still got out for a quick adventure.
Saturday we went to the Halifax Commons Pool, the best piece of public infrastructure added in a long time, and spent a little more than an hour in the water.
Sunday I wanted to hang out by the water, somewhere close that I was prety sure that no one else would be around, so we piled into the car and headed down to Marlborough Woods Park (archive link). I've been there a few times, and it takes a couple trips to feel like you belong there. It is a tiny park in a very old subdivision, a place that if we don't use it the city will likely sell it to some rich dude and there goes a little bit more of the water access around the city.
It was here that we found the swing with a line from the poem A Swing Song. The tree beside the swing now has a small fairydoor and some solar LED lights wrapped around it.
So many japanese beetles
Like last week, there are still a lot of japanese beetles, everywhere. Like these four annoying a bee in a flower.
Off to Point Pleasant
It was a little too quiet at Marlborough Woods Park, and the tide was way out making it hard for the kids to find footing and good rocks to toss, so we headed over to Point Pleasant Park where the fog was rolling in thick in the harbour.
By the time we left the fog had rolled right back out of the harbour and it was clear skies again.
Something that will never stop annyoing me are parents encouraging their kids to feed animals, pretending that they are in a Disney movies or something. One of the family of kids we came across this week had surgical gloves on holding peanuts and yelling at the squirrels to come to them.
First the squirrel is just going to poke through those pruple gloves and infect you with whatever you think they have. Their teeth and claws are very sharp.
Second, yelling isn't going to get you anywhere.
Third, DON'T FEED THE ANIMALS!
This squirrel was so tame, and expecting food, that I was able to get this uncropped shot with a 35mm on a full-frame camera.
And the squirrels in this area would run right up to our kids assuming that they have food with them. This is 100% learned behaviour because that's how many parents are taking kids to the park to feed the god damn squirrels.
End-of-rant
Speaking of not feeding the animals, we haven't had a bird feeder our for a couple of years now, ever since the province said that bird flu was a serious thing and we shouldn't encourage bird to hangout at feeders.
We do have a lot of bird friendly flowers and plants so we still get them coming around and they are still fun to take pictures of.
