Friday was a holiday for Abeona House. In the afternoon, we went to City Park to enjoy the Sculpture Gardens. (We actually went to check out the hours for the train, which we heard is now open on weekends!)
City Park was heavily impacted by Katrina’s winds and inundated by the Great Flood. It’s clean up has taken place almost entirely at the hands of volunteers. It is difficult to articulate the massive scale of both of those events: the destruction is as overwhelming as the task of clean-up. It is a beautiful and inspirational place, even as it recovers.
Will enjoyed reading “the menus” at each sculpture. It took awhile to sink in, but finally, he was reading each menu as “no climbing on the special artwork.”
Will investigates the giant spider. Frodo flashbacks!
Will runs to one of the garden’s most well-known and well-LOVEd pieces…
… and explores it. I would normally freak out (he’s on the artwork!) But I’ve seen at least four hundred family Christmas pictures with people hanging on it, so I figured Will’s crawling under was okay in moderation (it didn’t go any further than this).
More memorable pieces stretching out across the gardens.
Will LOVED the waterfall and pool.
We had a long conversation about the water, spiders on the rocks around it, and the different colors in the rocks and water as it moved.
Looking at the garden from one of the bridges.
Will reads a “menu.”
More garden views.
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