If you haven’t been to Shollengerber Park lately, you must go—and soon. While the ducklings paddle behind their mums. While Canadian geese honk and preen. While swans guard their cignets, barely visible through the reeds, and red-winged blackbirds burst into the sky like thoroughbreds out of the gate. You must go. Other season have their own beauty, when the sky is brooding and bleak or the land is parched and brown. But nothing compares to the birdsong and bustle of springtime with so many species carrying on as they’ve done for centuries. Even the beetles in the grass cavort like clowns. To walk through it, to listen and watch as the sun shines and the water ripples gently in the breeze is one of the great delights of the North Bay. And it’s free. You must go.
The entrance to the park is at Cader Lane just off of South McDowell in Petaluma. For more information about the park, see an article I wrote for examiner.com, Shollenberger Park, a haven for wildlife and people.
May 17, 2011 at 5:53 pm
That sounds and looks like a place to write a best-seller! I’ll be really glad to go there! I’d like to make a suggestion you’ll probably like: using sites like zazzle.com, caffepress.com, fiverr, etc? They could be a good way for promotion and “removing” stupidity in streets like headlines on t-shirts, fridge magnets, cups, etc. of the kind My Boyfriend kisses better than yours, FBI – Female Body Inspector, etc… Every author could use some good, wise quotes from his/her works, some poems, illustrations, etc. I’m allanbard there, I use some of my quotes, illustrations, poems, like: One can fight money only with money, Even in the hottest fire there’s a bit of water, All the problems in the world lead to one – narrow-minded people, Money are amongst the last things that make people rich, or
Love and happiness will be around,
as all the chains will disappear!
And Mountaineers will climb their mount,
and there won’t be any tear!
I hope such things look and sound much better than the stuff we see every day? Besdt wishes! LET THE WONDERFUL NOISE OF THE SEA ALWAYS SOUNDS IN YOUR EARS! (a greeting of the water dragons’ hunters, my Tale Of The Rock Pieces).