I’ve spent a lot of time enjoying Railroad Park this spring. From the Counts Brothers Building I can walk there in 10 minutes. On any given given weekend afternoon there are hundreds of people picnicing, flying kites, throwing balls, and taking in the scenery. I like to take some pencils and draw at my favorite spot beside the lake (I included a couple of quick sketches in the pictures). At night I like to walk alongside the waterfall and look at the lights changing the color of the water.
I took a couple of pictures of a peculiar feature, because the reflective tape looked cool in the camera’s flash. I asked Camille, the park’s executive director, what these things are and got this response:
I think their technical name is “bollards”, whatever that means. Kids love them – they run around them like an obstacle course, and often they try their darndest to pull them out of the ground. Since the bollards are flexible, kids also love to whack them.
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- From My Favorite Spot
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- Regions or Harbert Tower or whatever the call it
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- Face
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- Waterfall in Blue
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- Waterfall in Green
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- kids love to whack them
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- Bollards are also reflective
Nice drawings Wade. Photos too. Been a while since I made it back out to the park but I plan on fixing that soon. Hope to see you on the 20th!
Thanks, Scott. Maybe we should do one of the lunch meetups at the park before it gets too hot.
Now that sounds like a good idea! A sort of brown bag special kind of thing, maybe? Or something from a place close by….hmm, food for thought.
They had a cafe there last spring. Not sure if it’s open yet or not. We could probably order a pizza or brown bag or something else fun.
Maybe we could plan the one for May at Railroad Park then. Shouldn’t be too warm by then. Hopefully.
Sounds good to me. I dropped a line to the park to see if the cafe is open and the hours.
Hey Wade, like the post about RR park. B’ham needs to thrive again and hearing stories like yours makes me believe B’ham will come back. I am trying to do my part too!
Can’t wait to see your project come to fruition, Billie!