Some moments in a park
Yesterday evening I interrupted my "Predators" post to walk the dogs. The Westie is almost healed. When I take them for a longer walk, he puts down the "bad" leg every time in turn (although he may not be putting full weight on it). I think it's been 12 or 13 weeks since the surgery, and he's supposed to be fully healed at 16 weeks. I still keep him on lead.
So we're back at our "big" park again. It has a big wide open space with maybe four soccer fields. As you would expect, at times in the summer it is full of kids. But there is also a more wooded area that allows you to walk along one side of the creek, with some hills and other features the dogs like, then cross a bridge and come back on the other side. Many dogs owners go there and let their dogs off-lead.
Yesterday as we arrive, a cab driver is praying to Mecca. I don't think I've seen that anywhere, and ours is a rather "white bread" suburb of Toronto. He had laid a rug out on the grass, right by a soccer goal post, and he was kneeling with his forehead on the rug. It was exactly sundown. I don't know: do Moslems pray 5 times a day? Would this be the 4th or 5th?
Later, when we were in a more remote area, we encountered something you would expect, but which I actually haven't seen in this park very much: a young couple getting to know each other. When I arrived with the dogs, I saw the young woman (with the light failing) and said Hi. The young man turned out to be a few feet away, taking a leak into the bushes. As soon as he was done, the two of them were in each other's arms, and the dogs and I moved on.
I don't have any profound comments except: I guess this is liberal democracy.
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