Until recently, I had never even heard of Wood Dale County Park, let alone visited it, since it was carved out of a
section of Bergen County, NJ—parts of the communities of Hillsdale, Park Ridge
and Woodcliff Lake north of Prospect Avenue—that I seldom drive through. But,
having found this on the Web site of Bergen County’s parks and recreation
areas, I decided to see it at the first opportunity.
Today was practically ideal—a bit nippy, with
the temperature about 40 degrees, but no wind. Best of all, it wasn’t hard to get in and
out of the 118-acre park, as untold numbers of shoppers were clogging the
traffic arteries around the area malls.
Just a handful of people joined me on the pedestrian
pathway around the path, and—except for a pair of young boys fishing—just about
all of them were groups of twos and threes, being led around by frisky canines
who didn’t mind a bit of cold. (Heck, they had all that fur to keep them warm,
and weren’t bothered this time of year by mosquitoes.)
I thought of my possible choices for the day—wasting
time on endless store lines, fighting my way along major highways, spending
twice as much money (and given all the previews, twice as much time) in a dark
theater than anyone should—or glorying in the blue skies and bright sunshine in
the waning days of fall, when everything seemed sweeter because at this time of
year, everything seems so fleeting.
Look at this picture I took this afternoon. I think
I made the right choice, don’t you?
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