Recreating recreation.

With the recent turn toward sunny weather, we've had plenty of opportunity to check out the parks and green spaces in the area. About a month ago, we headed downtown to the Bird Island Pier, which is a concrete walkway built about 300 yards from shore. It wasn't the prettiest, since no greenery had poked through the surface yet but we saw our fair share of fun graffiti, dead bass, and errant gulls.

Last weekend, we walked to Island Park, a small park on an island (shocking!) behind the library. It's apparently very old, appearing on aerial maps dating back to at least the 1920s.

Another place we've been a few times is to Glen Park, and Glen Falls, which is a quaint park between Main St and Glen Ave, complete with a waterfall that formerly powered the Williamsville Water Mill. This weekend, weather permitting, I hope to visit Garrison Park, another green space in the vicinity of Main St and Cayuga Ave.

Next weekend, my mother will be visiting (and staying as a guest) for graduation. I've been honored with an award that allows (requires? forces?) me to participate in the ceremony that I had hoped to be able to skip. Anyway, while I'm sure she'll get on my nerves, I suppose I probably won't have another chance this year to see her, what with the summer travelling, so I should just shut up and enjoy our time together.

I've also been looking for jobs, which is a strange and slow process: one with which I've become happily disassociated in the last calendar year. However, I recently paid for exorbitant repairs on my silly car, and have ongoing expenses to attend, so it's time I gather some of my own income. As for other areas of life, I am 10 days away from no longer being an undergraduate student; I am about 60 days away from leaving for mon bon été; and so forth.

We have disclosed our tryst to People Who Need To Know, and those people alone. For now. :D