An Evening in the Park

Riding the Loop

Plans to head over to Batavia for a Muckdogs game fell through, so I headed over to Delaware Park to spend the evening hunting pictures.  There weren't any ballgames going on, but lots of other activity, as you can see from these photos.

First stop was the rose garden, where the flowers are starting to come out in force.  I wasn't the only one enjoying the sweet smells, as you can see in the picture below.

And what are the odds that, among the hundreds of flowers in the garden I would have stumbled on the following:

Yes, a stickpin laying across one of the flowers (I promise, I did not put it there). The guy below was hiding too, behind some vegetation that hid him from view when walking along the path beside Hoyt Lake.  But I happened to spot him from the bridge walking back from the rose garden.

Awaiting His Cue

Shakespeare in the Park has opened its season with a staging of Romeo & Juliet.  I didn't hang around long enough to see what character that was waiting backstage, but I like how the shot turned out. 

There was also live music over by the History Museum, with a band specializing in sixties British Invasion and garage rock.  I heard several Kinks songs, which they ably covered.  The guys below seemed to appreciate it too.

 All in all, not a bad way to pass an evening (even if it didn't include any baseball).