A walk with Scout

Scout and I walked up to Shroeter Park yesterday after dinner...

 

 Just a few blocks away.  Chasing the sunset...

This park, smack dab in the middle of suburbia, is like a desert garden out in the country.  

It has some amazing patches of Agave and Prickly Pear.

 

It's easy to forget you are only a few blocks from home.  

There are mulched trails throughout the park.

A heart shaped cactus - sweet!

I wore comfy clothes and tennies and came home covered in burrs, sweating half to death.  This park is surrounded by a granite gravel track that I used to walk regularly.  I should probably start that up again...maybe just not at day's end - yuck.

 But we were just here to see nature, and the setting sun gave us such nice light to photograph.

 Curved wall around a playscape near where we take family photos - such a beautiful place.

A path in and around patches of mesquite and cacti.  The sounds of cicadas was deafening!

 Dried blooms on some unknown-to-me weed.  Beautiful even when dried out.

 

 Some of these trees have to be generations old, when this area was farmland.

 Hurry!  We're almost out of light!

Until tomorrow...