Sneakers and Skylines: April 2019

The Old Kilmer Woods

The pollywogs swam
in the trickle of a stream,
pale gully flanked by fallen tree
on which to prance and dream.
Thin, glossy sprouts
of the "peppermint" tree
there to peel and taste --
nature's gift, for free.
My garden I raked
beside the great, supine timber,
our "table" and "chair"
for all chats before dinner.
The soil, rich and dark,
chips of china poking through,
relics of people
we never knew.
I talked to my cat
and I drank in the sun,
there where child and Heaven
felt like one.

(Written by me on April 12, 2019. All rights reserved.)

An Old Building

12:44 p.m. December 31, 2018 - An old building beside the Mahwah train station. I don't know what function this building served/serves. I like the sign.

A Broader View

12:45 p.m. December 31, 2018 - A broader view of the banks of Winter's Pond, giving more of an adult visual perspective - Mahwah, NJ

A Little Gazebo

12:45 p.m. December 31, 2018 - The little gazebo, a more recent addition, at Winter's Pond - Mahwah, NJ

Where We Fed the Ducks and Ice-Skated

12:45 p.m. December 31, 2018 - The pond's edge where I fed the ducks in mild weather and launched into ice-skating in the winter, growing up as a child in Mahwah. (Winter's Pond was one of several Bergen County ponds for these activities, in the 1960s and 1970s.)