After a virtual yoga session with Thelma McNutty this morning I was off to Lucy Park for a warm communing with nature.
There is a possibility today will reach a record breaking high.
The first time I visited Lucy Park I parked near that which you see above. At that point in time I did not know why Lucy Park was so named. Thus, seeing the above I thought the park's name might somehow be derived from the famous Lucy archeological dig in Ethiopia, back in the 1970s.
But, alas, Lucy Park's name has nothing to do with the famous Ethiopian Lucy. You can read all about that Lucy in the Wikipedia Lucy Australopithecus article.
An interesting blurb from the Wikipedia Lucy article..
"Lucy" acquired her name from the 1967 song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" by the Beatles, which was played loudly and repeatedly in the expedition camp all evening after the excavation team's first day of work on the recovery site. After public announcement of the discovery, Lucy captured much public interest, becoming a household name at the time.
There is no explanatory signage explaining what looks like an archeological dig in Lucy Park. Maybe it's there and I missed it.
Back during the dinosaur era the Texas region played host to a lot of those long gone reptiles. You can see some of their remains, well, fossilized footprints, at Dinosaur Valley State Park, near Glen Rose and the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center.
It is time for lunch, walking around Lucy Park, after strenuous virtual yoga with McNutty, works up an appetite...
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