Picture Time

It is Thursday night and it’s one of the colder nights we’ve had in the past few weeks. There is a girl, Clara, taking pictures at the duck pond. She has a photographer that has gear set up at two benches and it taking her pictures. The girl seems to be a high school teenager and I believe she might be taking her senior pictures. 

There is a good size group of people that walks up International mall headed towards the Pan Am. It consists of one older man, two women, a teenage guy and girl, and two little boys about ten years old. They look very similar and could possibly be twins. The boys are going around in circles up and down riding on scooters. The adults are walking two large white poodles.

On the bridge there is a man with three young kids, one boy and two girls. They have a few flashlights and the kids are having fun shining them into the water.

A few minutes later the group walking the dogs passes on the opposite side heading down this time. I believe they might have just walked around the Pan Am and are headed back through the other side. They pass over the bridge and keep heading down.

A young couple, Dory and Ean, walk on the bridge pushing a stroller and head towards the parking lot.

A big recent change is the construction that has been going on for the past few weeks. Things are stating to come together and the walls have now been placed up and the roof has been started.

The boy that was playing on the bridge with the flashlight is now playing with a soccer ball over on the grass.

There have been a few new trashcans that have been put up. Additionally there is square of cement under them so they might be permanent. It seems as if the university is making a effort to keep this place clean. A few weeks ago I wrote about noticing cleaner water and less trash and last week there was a worker picking up trash.

I can see the photographer making gestures with his hands trying to teach Clara how to stand in new poses. There are still there when I leave.

On the parking lot passes a group of six guys riding skateboards and long boards headed in the Direction of the Pan Am.