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mistressofmuses) wrote2025-06-21 08:16 pm
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Last Tuesday: Matthews/Winters Park
Last Tuesday was the day after we lost Cy. We didn't really... feel like doing anything, but also felt like we *should* do something, rather than just stay home and be sad.
Bella had spent almost all of Monday stuck in her kennel, so we wanted to let her go do things, too.
We decided to go to Matthews/Winters, a county park. It was a good choice: it kept us from dwelling quite so much, and it was a nice day to be outside. It was a park Cy always really liked, because of the creek at the front, and I kept getting teary at random, but it was still good.
View from the parking lot.
There were tons of wildflowers. The lupine is very happy this year!
Mushrooms!
Matthews/Winters is the site of the Mount Vernon Cemetery. There are only two remaining headstones, though the cemetery likely includes additional burials. As far as I know, there's nothing else remaining of the town.
The helpful informative sign provides a little bit about the two known graves:
James H. Judy, died 1867, aged 21 years, 8 months, 15 days.
Rev. Isaiah Rogers Dean, died in 1860. [Apparently he moved to Colorado to try and treat his consumption (tuberculosis).]
Globemallow.
I love all the new growth on this prickly pear!
Just a nice view.
More of the lovely lupines.
Yucca flower.
Red-tailed hawk, high overhead.
Blanketflower.
Bluebells.
Silly, but I was trying to get a picture of the fritillary butterfly, but here it looks like it was pursuing Alex and Bella down the pathway, haha.
It was a very warm day, and it did wipe Bella out a bit, but she got to wade in the creek at the end, which she was more enthusiastic about than usual. As usual, she napped for a bit and was ready to go again, ha.
Bella had spent almost all of Monday stuck in her kennel, so we wanted to let her go do things, too.
We decided to go to Matthews/Winters, a county park. It was a good choice: it kept us from dwelling quite so much, and it was a nice day to be outside. It was a park Cy always really liked, because of the creek at the front, and I kept getting teary at random, but it was still good.
View from the parking lot.
There were tons of wildflowers. The lupine is very happy this year!
Twelve more pictures, mostly wildflowers:
Mushrooms!
Matthews/Winters is the site of the Mount Vernon Cemetery. There are only two remaining headstones, though the cemetery likely includes additional burials. As far as I know, there's nothing else remaining of the town.
The helpful informative sign provides a little bit about the two known graves:
James H. Judy, died 1867, aged 21 years, 8 months, 15 days.
Rev. Isaiah Rogers Dean, died in 1860. [Apparently he moved to Colorado to try and treat his consumption (tuberculosis).]
Globemallow.
I love all the new growth on this prickly pear!
Just a nice view.
More of the lovely lupines.
Yucca flower.
Red-tailed hawk, high overhead.
Blanketflower.
Bluebells.
Silly, but I was trying to get a picture of the fritillary butterfly, but here it looks like it was pursuing Alex and Bella down the pathway, haha.
It was a very warm day, and it did wipe Bella out a bit, but she got to wade in the creek at the end, which she was more enthusiastic about than usual. As usual, she napped for a bit and was ready to go again, ha.