D.O.P.-T. (yesterday)

It's summer, already. My nose is pink, my arms have started to tan, and I have a couple of itchy bites. And the driveway is dusted with pollen.

D.O.P.-T.

The park is almost back to normal. Heavy use of the play areas, tennis lessons, frisbee, volleyball, and joyful dog play on the playing field, sotball and baseball on Saturdays and basketball on Sundays, and parties at the picnic tables on the weekends, often with a bouncy castle if it's a kid's birthday. The Asian ladies' dance group has returned. The loud soundtrack to the basketball events hasn't come back, the volleyball is much less organized and with fewer participants (I think it was a "welcome to the new building" thing for the downtown condos that became a habit), there aren't as many tennis lessons as there were in 2020 and 2021 when team sports were forbidden or iffy, and the daily mass doggy play sessions have either dissipated or are at a time when we aren't there, but people new to the area must see a very well used park.