FOTO FRIDAY's topic this week is a result of our usage of wonderful parks.So do you have a photo you'd like to share taken in a park?
The following was taken in Riverside Park where Judi caught us enjoying the Old School Variety Show after a nice picnic dinner. We are sated both gastronomically, culturally and socially.
It was a lovely evening performance... Do share a park pic.
Judi added more to the 'park' theme with a photo and her interesting words regarding the proposed American Memorial Park Tinian whose legislation's pending and very unlikely to pass).
"It was the most moving place we've ever been. Runway Able is part of the airstrip at North Field where the two flights of Enola Gay and Bockscar embarked. They, of course, are the planes that dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The island of Tinian has a population of around 3500 today but after the U.S. captured it from the Japanese in 1944 it was quickly turned into one of the largest airbases of WW II with over 40,000 airmen, seabees and marines.
The whole north end of the island is basically abandoned now. We rented a motorbike and headed north. For over an hour, we never saw a house or person. Apparently some kind of front end loader drives through monthly to try to keep the jungle from encroaching on everything but we still came to several dead-ends where vegetation had taken over. The area is beautiful and haunting. We felt amazed, saddened and solemn.
In a way, we hope the legislation doesn't pass but that it remains underdeveloped but discoverable to people who are interested in the amazing history of North Field."
Last week's FOTO FRIDAY: FUNNY CAPTIONS only encouraged one addition but hey we'll take whatever we can get. Thanks Queen Jester. Click :HERE
AND remember, it's never to late to add...
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