Remembering summer: Courthouse Plaza

We have our own particular summer here in Prescott. All because we have our very own civic lawn, right in the center of town. It's a carefully curried greensward that every summer supports booths and crowds for weekend shows, as well as smaller crowds enjoying musicians on weekday evenings. Quite understandable that our Courthouse Plaza was just honored as one of the USA's 10 top public spaces by the American Planning Association.

But, I'd say, equally important is that local folk and visitors alike simply hang out on the lawn at the Square. Here's a look at some of the less frenetic activity. When your toes start getting chilly, remember there'll be yet another summer.

Oh yes, I almost forgot. The Square is the best place in town to enjoy kicking up the leaves dropped every autumn, tho it takes the right timing to arrive after a maximum leaf fall and just in front of the rakes and leaf blowers.

Swings

Today was a lazy, warm summer day. No rain. Sun shining bright. I recalled a handful of pictures of swings in the archives. And I recalled Robert Louis Stevenson:

How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!

Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
River and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside--

Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown--
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!

A Grab Bag of Links: You may recall that a few days ago, an oldtimer posted a query about the Cornet store closing. I've now heard from a former employee of Cornet who tells a bit of its history here (scroll down to the last couple of posts.) We have a big election coming up; Jib-Jab has its own take on the whole bloody affair. And a PhotoShop job on Iranian missiles was recently in the news; naturally, the Iranian picture is being further PhotoShopped all over the place. Finally, a huge, linkable list of nature blogs and bloggers.