A Day in the Park 公園的過程

A warm, windy winter day is the perfect time to go to the park as I did with my children this past week. In these photos the children are in the midst of a class on weather and meteorology. They are making weather vanes and kites.

I have always thought of parks as important to a neighborhood. A good park can be a meeting place for different elements of society that might otherwise never meet. Families, the elderly, teenagers, ball teams all can get together in a park if it is well designed and in an area where the weather is nice. My preference is for parks that can be used both for relaxation/congregation as well as a field for playing sports if there is space. Parks should not be too large though, in order to be accessible to pedestrians as well as cars.

In Taipei, we lived near a nice little park on Shi Da 師大 Road. We could walk 1 block down from our apartment to the park. Both the children and adults had equipment to play on. There was a sort of swing for adults and various types of see-saw equipment for children that are vanishing from American parks.