Municipalities serve all types of functions. There are the boring ones which no one talks about but that are all too relevent to people’s daily lives, like keeping the water turned on, the water mains flushed out and the roads in good repair. And then there are the controversial duties which everyone has an opinion about, like which polished developers should be able to build what, where. with what exceptions to the zoning codes.
And somewhere in between are the functions which are both useful and sometimes delightful. They happen right in the parks. Take a look at this photo and see the variety of services it is providing on a beautiful spring day.
There a youth in a tree instead of staring at a screen. A woman is on a bench, seated next to a man whose leg is in a cast is stretched out and leaning up against his crutch. There’s a cluster of three under the shade of the blooming Magnolia trees. There’s a two-some cutting across the open plaza. A bit further down a photographer is setting up a light diffuser. And in the foreground a lady in pink inspects her phone for any udates.
There are people at play, people in convalesence, people in a group and people passing through. There are people at work and people in communication. A park is a place where people doing all sorts of things mingle. It’s all capture here on a quick snap shot, on a sunny day, in Spring.
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