When others share your joy
We had a friend in and was showing him City Park and he compared it to a meadow because of its lack of forest. City Park is studded with Louisiana live oaks, some as old as 600 years although a friend debates that and says maybe 350 tops. But we are so in love with the park and its beauty.
Yesterday, I was walking Loca through the park and on my way out, I saw a young couple taking photographs of the swans that were preening in the lagoon. Pelicans flew by and the cormorants were hanging out in the denuded tree in the middle of the water. The young woman looked up at me in glee and said, “This is paradise!”
I said, indeed.
She then went on to say that she and her beau were from Virginia and that it was so wonderful to be in the park and seeing the wildlife. I told her I had gone recently on a bayou tour and saw a few gators, but nothing compared to my daily diet of herons, egrets, turtles, pelicans and swans.
She said, you’re lucky.
I said, indeed.