Some more shots from buttonwood Park

Good Morning and have a wonderful day, were over a week into the New Year and I hope it is going well so far for you

I mentione din a previous post how I do not make New Years resolutions, but probably if I did it would be to get out tand take more photos mpoving forward, but hey for me thats not sa New Years Resolution, I am always thinking that, and besides with it being winter here and often to cold for me to head out for walks in the morning, and we have had a lot of rainy and windy days I mean like gale force winds, so it would be silly to make that resolution since the weather and I will conceed my age is against me.

I Guess I can strive to get more photos this year and with luck that should be easy since last year i had two months posy surgeyr where i was recovering and couldnt get out for photo walks.

well as usual I have waffled on to start this post and not even mentioned what I will be sharign today so here goes.

A coupleof weeks ago, well maybe three or four weeks ago I did a daytime walk in Buttonwood park, initially i went there to see if there were any birds onht epond close enough for good shots, which alas there wasnt, but in a way that was good as I got a good walk in around the park.
Most of the colors were fading away as we head into winter at that stage, but this one tree was hanging in there with such warm color

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This next one was trying to hang in there, a bit of a light flare in the bottom right which I would normally not edit this photo but i kind of liked the effect so here it is

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now probably my Favorite tree in the park or at least the one i take the most photos of on the island in the middle of the pond

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The Barnard Memorial, sculpted in 1914 by Hungarian immigrant artist George Julian Zolnay. The sculpture is known as the Barnard Memorial, after the person who provided the funding, George D. Barnard, who was born in New Bedford but moved to St. Louis and formed a stationery company. At its dedication, Barnard described his idea for the monument: “Why not erect a statue that would show the whaler at home and among his neighbors or a representation of the early New Bedford as I knew it as well as of the present city to continue the story.” Zolnay, a St. Louis resident at the time, accepted the commission to memorialize “all that New Bedford was, all that it is and all it ever will be."

At the base of the monument stand seafaring men and women. Standing above them is a blacksmith wearing a thick apron balancing a gear upon an anvil. The inscription reads, “Dedicated as a Tribute to the sturdy whalemen who early won fame for New Bedford and their successors who, inheriting ideals and resourcefulness gave to the city new prominence by creating a great manufacturing center.”

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and the road I drive inbto when I go to the park

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And that’s all folks

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