The temperature has gone over 100 again. With not much of a breeze. I've been up since 3 this morning. I went swimming well before the sun showed up. I liked swimming under the partial moon.By 11 I was in the mood for a walk in the shade. It was only 96, or thereabouts, at that point in time. I decided to go to Village Creek Natural Historic Area, because there is a lot of natural shade there.
Upon arrival I saw a new sign. Listing TRAIL RULES. One of the rules is "SPEED LIMIT 10 MPH."
See that sign a short distance from the new sign? If you click on the picture to see the bigger version you'll see that that second sign, on the lower left, says "20 MPH speed limit on trails."
I think Arlington is setting up some sort of trail speed trap. With the trail cops, with their radar guns, ready to ticket anyone moving faster than 10 mph on the trails.
Or this is a silly mistake that one would think someone would have noticed?
Other than the sign faux pas, it was an uneventful walk through the Village Creek Natural Historic Area zone. As you can clearly see, in the picture, I did not overheat today.
Don Young emailed a recipe for Creek Plum Tarts yesterday, using plums picked from trees growing on the Tandy Hills.
There is some sort of fruit tree shedding some sort of fruit at Village Creek. The fruit looks like it my be a Wild Cherry. Or maybe it's a Wild Plum. I'll go look at Don Young's plum pictures and be right back.
Well size-wise Don Young's Tandy Hills Creek Plum look the same as the Village Creek fruit. But the color is different. With the Village Creek fruits being a deep red. I did not sample one of the possible Village Creek Wild Cherries because I thought it odd that birds did not seem to be eating them. And no ants were working on the ones that were on the ground.
Would a park that can't make up its mind about its trail speed limit be growing poison fruit trees? Likely not.
They'll have enough laws posted everywhere and written down in dusty books, it'll be like our entire lives will be live inside an excruciatingly unpleasant high school. The speed limit is aimed at the bikers, obviously and they can go at a fairly good clip without too much trouble at all. At ten miles an hour, though, if it's enforced, you might as well find another place to bike, or get off of it and push it along. They ought to post a sign saying: Welcome to the park. No playing, no laughing, no having a good time. Your tax dollars at work.
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