Sunday, January 27, 2008

A walk in the park

Rockwood Park! It is the largest urban park in Canada at 2,200 acres and was designed by Calvert Vaux, one of the designers of Central Park in New York. Another point of interest is that in 1907 a court battle had to settle the question of who has the rights to the ice - the ice cutters (because no one had freezers at that time) or the skaters. The skaters won and subsequently in 1926, Charlie Gorman (a proud Saint Johner) won the World Speedskating Championships there at Lily Lake before 20,000 fans.
Our little visit was not quite so historic but it WAS Simeon's first walk in the woods and we thoroughly enjoyed our snowy stroll. Here they are reflecting on Robert Frost.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

That is an awesome photo, guys! Just so neat and gives one the warm fuzzies. Father and son look so happy hanging (HEHEHE, LOL) together in the snowy beauty. :)
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Anonymous said...

By the depth of things, looks like you took the road less traveled by.

Anonymous said...

I finally get to see Sean wearing the baby backpack thing!!!

~ Angelique

Cricket on the Hearth said...

Allison, it was a few weeks ago right after we had a bunch of storms in a row. I love it when the snow is so clean and fresh!
~Ruth

Emily said...

so cute!

Anonymous said...

I didn't even know you had a baby! I'm way out of the loop! Congrats! He's beautiful!
Nikki (Sherlock) Bonney