the rix mix

Yesterday, perfect weather, I sunned myself at Phil Rizzuto playground park. You have to sun yourself because there's no shade. In the summer I avoid the place until shadows are very long. Not only it is wide open, it's bordered by two busy roads & is across the street from acres of Kean University asphalt parking lot. The kids don't seem to mind the heat, anyway there's a spray fountain on those days - sea horses spit water. In honor of the Hall 0f Fame Yankee shortstop there's giant baseballs & bats at the entrance but no baseball diamond. It has a soccer field, which looks like it's supposed to be low maintenance but if they want a good soccer field they'll have to work on it better or nobody who would treat it right will want to use it. The best place there is a bridge over a glen - it's just a small urban creek not going far, about 5 feet down in a wide ditch with eroded banks, a spread of yellow flowers growing in it, little stretch of wildness. Some days the sound of the playground is musical to me, other days it annoys, or i don't notice.