MEMORIES OF CENTRAL PARK
Saturday was a Central Park kind of day in Asheville. The sun was shining and the air was cool. On Tueday Leeann took us for a walk through to Central Park after our visit to the Guggenheim Museum. The same architect who designed Central Park designed the house and gardens at the large Bilmore Estate in Asheville. Central Park in New York City is not just a large rectangle in the center of Manhattan with a lot of trees and some flowers. There curving footwear’s and bicycle paths are carefully laid out with the rocky landscape of the park carefully preserved and with plenty of flat places for picnics and sitting on the grass. It is very similar to the carefully laid out garden at the estate we visited in Haarlem a couple of months ago. On Tuesday Central Park wasn‘t crowded but the park was full of walkers and bicyclists. There was the same vibrancy that we saw in the other parks in New York City. We walked to the Strawberry Fields section of the park where there is a memorial to John Lennon who lived and was killed close by where a stream of people got their photographs taken and then suddenly Leeann had to rush to an appointment and Susie and I walked slowly back to the Torn Page house, stopping to eat dinner at Chelsea Market.
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 