Saturday, March 15, 2008

Old Park, New Trails?

As I mentioned during the week, Mom and I went on a Park Headquarters Adventure when we went to the Blue Hills. The point of this exercise wasn't to take me on new trails - not immediately - but to acquire a Trail Map. The Blue Hills Reservation is very large, with lots of trails, and it would be very easy to get lost in there. Having acquired said map, Mom was able to find some new trails for us to enjoy. Yesterday we took the first of them.

This other entrance to the park is much closer to our house and doesn't require us to get in I-93. Mom says that this is good because after 3:00 the highway becomes unpleasantly crowded and Mom gets nervous driving on it. We parked at the Shea Rink, which is also part of the reservation although there is nothing natural about a year-round skating rink. Still, the entrance to the trail was right there, and we went in.

Mom had figured out a path for us to take. She brought the trail map in with us. It was steep in a lot of places, and required us to cross a busy street twice (without a crosswalk too!) Still, it was an amazingly beautiful trail. We saw the St. Mortiz Ponds, and lots of grafitti exhorting us to "Embrace Islam" and directing us to an "Islamic Training Camp." Mom says that it was likely someone's idea of a joke, since real extremists wouldn't have signs pointing to a camp and would have written them in Arabic in any case. Either way, Islam is not a religion that prostletyzes amongst the canine population, so I piddled on the tree and we kept going. We passed tall rocks, and lots of brooks and streams and springs. We also passed a cemetary that is not part of the reservation but abutts it. I wanted to go in, but Mom wouldn't let me. There was a boat in the cemetary. Neither of us knew why.

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