Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Week 2



This beautiful cold winter morning was not my favorite day. It was rather cold and windy and yet still no people to be found. This week, I admired all parts of the park, the basketball court, the jungle gym and the baseball field. The basketball court did not look itself, as it usually has multiple people playing pick up on it. The baseball field is usually empty for the most park and if its not, someone is playing fetch with their dog on it. The jungle gym was missing children yelling and laughing. I heard nothing today, not one bird. I saw the moving trees from the wind but yet the snow stayed in place as if it was never going anywhere any time soon. When will the snow go away and have the children return to play? Hopefully the snow will go away sooner than later, but it is not looking like that. It is still very cold out and I hear we are getting more snow next week! The children will return to play once the snow has disappeared, as they always do every year!

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

  I chose to observe this semester at my local park, Symphony Park in Peabody, Massachusetts. I went there the morning of Monday February 17, 2014. It was about twenty degrees but the sun was shining and the birds were wide awake, chirping away. Fresh air is what I smell and nothing more, I see some snow on the trees but mostly leafs. This is a good sign for no more winter I hope! The playground looks so empty compared to what it normally looks like. Their is too much snow today for their to be a soul here. Most of the time there are some brave souls walking around but nobody in sight today. Snow is all over the swings and slides on the playground which just means there has not been a soul here in a while. Is this how this park is suppose to sound you may ask. No, this is sad to me, I like to see at least some people here, without people it looks too lonely and deserted. A playground should be noisy with kids screaming and balls bouncing. This was a peaceful morning overall but I would have liked to hear some other noise except for the birds chirping.