City Park and Cemetery

This afternoon at 1:30 p.m., I got a jump start on enjoying a three-day weekend.  I was quick to take advantage of the time by loading the bicycle on to the rack of the truck for a soon to be bicycle ride.  The desire for adventure took me to a city park I have never been too.  It is located on Bryant Irvin Road in Fort Worth, and is called River Park.  As you might deduce by the name, it is located along a portion of the Trinity River and the Trinity Trail.  The actual park is very small, but the Trinity Trail runs alongside great lengths of the Trinity River.  Yes, the same river which cuts through most of Fort Worth and beyond.  I wasn't out for very long, maybe thirty to forty-five minutes as the weather was getting hot, but I had a blast.  Of course I took a lot of pictures.  Then I visited a cemetery located about a block and a half away from the park.  If you've been reading my blog for any amount of time, you will recall I am a cemetery junkie.  This is due to the history I find in simply reading headstones and walking around the grounds.  One of the markers read of a man who was a Confederate soldier and a prisoner of war in the North during the Civil War.  Fascinating!  I need to get out to participate in stuff like this more often.  Please visit these places, and they will personally enrich your life.  If you are not local to Fort Worth, make your own adventures to cemeteries and parks.  The reward is beyond measure.  Enjoy the pictures.




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