A walk through our nearby park

Hello, Hivers and Wednesday walkers!

It had been weeks, I would say a couple of months since I had gone for a walk in Vizcaya Park. A park with walking trails and exercise circuits that is close to our house and that I have told you about on my Wednesday walks before.

I hadn't been going for a while since now I usually go hiking in a nature reserve in the mountains nearby, but yesterday, I convinced my husband to go with me and he is not very fond of hiking lately. So we went to Vizcaya.

The park was much nicer than the last time we have been there. The rain of the last few weeks has done wonders and the vegetation is very green and the trees are lush.

It was late afternoon. And as always, at that time, quite a few people were exercising, either walking, jogging, or doing calisthenics.

I found the root of this tree impressive, and it well deserved a photo. That's what you can call rooting, hehe.

Some children were playing in the park. And even a group of pre-teens doing a photo shoot, but I didn't ask what they were for.

We also witnessed a small accident. A lady whose child was playing on the exercise machines. The child was on an arm exercise machine that had hydraulic tubes, and suddenly let go of them and one of the tubes hit the mother in the nose and almost knocked her out. Paramedics and an ambulance came, but fortunately, the mother did not lose consciousness, and the husband went to pick her up to take her to the doctor. What a scare.

This red Acacia tree is the one I like the most in the park. Although this year, it is barely in bloom as opposed to last year when it was a feast of red flowers at this time of the year.

It caught my eye that at the base of the trunk of the tree, there was a clay pot. I didn't get too close to look inside. But I wonder why it was there.

One of my favorite corners of this park is the reading garden where last year they put a small wooden mini-library. And I told about it at the time.

In the garden, there were originally two busts of Latin American writers. The Venezuelan Romulo Gallegos and the Argentinean Jorge Luis Borges.

Now there are a couple of new additions. And another wooden bench to spend some time looking at the books of the mini library.

I could spend hours sitting there reading, but only when it's not too hot hehe.

One of the new busts is of the Polish Nobel Prize-winning writer, Wislawa Szymborska. It is a donation from the Polish embassy. I have never read this writer, by the way. Have any of you?

The other addition to the reading garden has been a bust of the well-known Spanish poet Federico García Lorca. From what the plaque says, it was a donation from the Spanish Embassy.

And on the plaque, it is a verse from one of his best-known poems. The one that came to my mind when I saw so much green in the park.

"Verde que te quiero verde
verde viento verdes ramas
el barco sobre la mar
el caballo en la montaña."
Federico García Lorca

_{"Green, I love you green
green wind, green branches
the ship on the sea
the horse on the mountain.""}

And so ended our walk yesterday. We wanted to come back today, but I am exhausted after an afternoon with plumbers at home. They came to change some pipes, since last week, one of the heater pipes cracked and although we repaired it in the emergency, it is better to be safe and change the pipes that are already old and rusty. So tomorrow will go for a new walk in the park.

This is my post for this week's #wednesdaywalk challenge hosted by @tattoodjay in collaboration with #makemesmile hosted by @elizacheng.

Thank you for reading.

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© CoquiCoin

June 21, 2023

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