{"id":2831,"date":"2017-09-16T23:30:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T03:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2017-09-16T23:30:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T03:30:33","slug":"forest-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/16\/forest-in-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest in the City"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first weekend in June this year, I went on my first 50-mile ride of the year.\u00a0 Much of the route was roads I’d ridden on before<\/a>.\u00a0 I rode from Holyoke east into Chicopee, then south through Ludlow and a bit of Springfield into Wilbraham.\u00a0 I then went southwest to East Longmeadow, rode the Redstone Trail again, and then made my way due west into the town of Longmeadow.<\/p>\n

I had not biked through Longmeadow this way before, but my objective was to head to a part of Springfield that I hadn’t previously visited.\u00a0 Heading north into Springfield, I rode into Forest Park<\/a>.\u00a0 I’ve known about this large park in the city for years, but only finally got around to visiting.<\/p>\n

I didn’t ride through all of the park – mostly the western section.\u00a0 There I found a large pond:<\/p>\n

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The pond, as you might expect, attracts waterfowl:<\/p>\n

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Apparently that one goose prefers the company of ducks to that of its own species.\u00a0 Birds, like humans, have different orientations, it would seem.<\/p>\n

I passed by the old carriage house that is now used as an event space, and walked up a little hill to view the fancy mausoleum of the Barney family.<\/p>\n

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It’s fenced in, so the general public can’t climb all over it (or to keep people from defacing it, I suppose).<\/p>\n

I exited the north side of the park and went to have a burrito for lunch.\u00a0 I then, as a couple times in the past, rode up Springfield’s riverside bikeway, though that path currently has a discontinuity.\u00a0 The portion of it that traveled on a bridge over railroad tracks is closed and under construction – part of the larger reconstruction being done on Interstate 91.\u00a0 So I had to ride on downtown streets for a ways, then go back to the path.<\/p>\n

After reaching the northern end of the bikeway, I headed through Chicopee and back to home.<\/p>\n

Next: a weekend bike trip to another state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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