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diff --git a/published/2014-11-09-memorial-park.txt b/published/2014-11-09-memorial-park.txt deleted file mode 100644 index a49b9e6..0000000 --- a/published/2014-11-09-memorial-park.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,44 +0,0 @@ ---- -template: single -point: 33.926604399603534,-83.3854269439668 -location: Athens,Georgia,United States -image: 2014/baxter-maine.jpg -desc: Loons, Maine, Memorial Park -dek: Loons, Maine, Memorial Park. *What that sound is?* -pub_date: 2014-11-09T20:30:48 -slug: memorial-park -title: Memorial Park ---- - -The first time I ever heard a loon was canoe camping beside a pond in Baxter State Park, Maine. When you have no idea what *that sound* is (*what that sound is?* -L and O), a loon call in the dark is terrifying. - -It's a been a long time since then, but I'll never forget that sound. I think about it every time we walk around the pond at Memorial Park. - -<img src="[[base_url]]2014/pond-in-maine-baxter-state-park.jpg" alt="Pond in Baxter State Park Maine" class="picwide" /> - -The pond at Memorial Park looks nothing like this one, which is the one I camped by in Maine, but memory is a funny thing. For whatever reason the little pond at Memorial Park reminds me of that one in Maine. There is no physical resemblance at all. Baxter is a wild place with few people around. The pond at Memorial Park is the opposite. There's even a fountain in the middle. Still, something about it. - -L and O have never heard a loon, never been to Baxter State Park. Yet. - -They're happy with the swings and the slides and the ducks. - -<img src="[[base_url]]2014/20141102_Nov_07_memorial-park_002.jpg" alt="" class="picwide960" /> - -<img src="[[base_url]]2014/20141102_Nov_07_memorial-park_013.jpg" alt="" class="picfullv" /> - -<img src="[[base_url]]2014/20141107_Nov_07_memorial-park_024.jpg" alt="" class="picwide960" /> - -<img src="[[base_url]]2014/20141102_Nov_07_memorial-park_016.jpg" alt="" class="picwide960" /> - -<img src="[[base_url]]2014/20141107_Nov_07_memorial-park_050.jpg" alt="" class="picwide960" /> - -<img src="[[base_url]]2014/20141107_Nov_07_memorial-park_058.jpg" alt="" class="picwide960" /> - -Geese they are not such big fans of, but last week the geese weren't around. Just ducks. - -<img src="[[base_url]]2014/20141107_Nov_07_memorial-park_061.jpg" alt="" class="picwide960" /> - -And climbing, you can never climb atop too many rocks. - -<img src="[[base_url]]2014/20141107_Nov_07_memorial-park_093.jpg" alt="" class="picwide960" /> - |