Photo Essay of Sacred Heart Park

 Along the Banks of the Shawsheen River 6-29-2012

All of these photos were taken on Friday, June 29th shortly after a thunderstorm rolled through town. I wrote about my walk in a previous post which you can read here: A Walk in the Park After the Storm. Today, just enjoy the photos and the poem! (All of today’s photos were taken with the Nikon Coolpix S4000)

 The Shawsheen River

A Walk In the Park in Summer

Down along the Shawsheen I walk

A summer’s day drenched in spangles

Of sunlight and shadows

Dancing on the woodland path,

Or playing on the lawn.

Birds sing, robins hop,

Orange breasts flashing like bright apples on the ground,

Song sparrow sings,

Catbirds mew,

A small bunny nibbles on clover.

The river slides by golden brown

Silt particles floating and flashing in the current,

While grackles call and cackle from the shore

And on the dead snag in the river an eastern kingbird flies out,

Hits the water, and returns to its perch again.

~Kathie Adams Brown (July 2, 2003)

Black Walnut Tree

 

 Black Walnuts

 

 Light and shadow playing

 

 Wet leaves

 

 Common Mullein

 Water lilies

 

 Overgrown pond

 

 Woodland

 Wild Raspberries

 Mushrooms in Soccer Field

 

 Butterfly in Parking lot

 

 Ivy gone wild

 

 Soccer Field and parking lot (view from woodland path)

 

Soccer Field (view from playground corner)