Monday, June 2, 2008

A Walk in the Park



Yesterday, my sister and I took my elderly mom for a drive and found ourselves at Campbell Valley Regional Park, at the south entrance rather than the north side I have used in the past. There we discovered a visitor information house with some lovely and informative displays about the animals and flowers in the area, and a beautiful "wildlife" garden which included a lovely butterfly garden, ponds, and masses of flowers. It was a wonderful place to spend an hour or two, and very handicapped accessible with well groomed smooth but natural material trails which accomodated mom's walker just fine.










3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Jean,

Beautiful pictures of your walk in the park.

Lou

Anonymous said...

I LOVE Campbell Valley Park! It's in my top 3 places on the earth that I love the most -- have walked there for many, many years (horse trails are my favorite, far fewer people, lots of nature's critters/birds). I'm there all the time.

Did you see the turtles at the 8th Ave pond? And did you know there's a rarely-used dog off-leash park at 4th and 200th?

Sharon

Jean said...

I didn't see the turtles, though some young boys paddling in the ponds had been looking at them just before we arrived.
We didn't have the dogs with us, but I did notice the other offleash park. A bit far for me on a regular day, but certainly a place to take the dogs when I'm heading to mom's with one or more of them.
Sharon, another lovely lovely park that I discovered when I was helping with Macy is Williams Park in Langley - beautiful trails, lots of shade, virtually deserted when I was there. Very peaceful.