A very slow moving stream has the honor of the name Swannanoa River. Other streams coming down from various valleys and coves in the area will help it double in size before it joins the French Broad River near Asheville, and then continues north to join the Tennessee and the Ohio and finally the Mississippi on its way to the Gulf of Mexico. Whew...lots of water going down hill!
I walked at Veterans Park on Sunday. There were lots of spaces where baseball and soccer are played, and kind of interspersed with the walk was an Ultimate Frisbee Course.
This is something new, getting kids interested in snorkeling to see some of the wildlife in the river. In summertime I hope.
The river made the big arc, and whatever had been inside the circumfrence before, has now become 4 baseball fields, a soccer field, and lots of parking space. Oh yes, and in the summer-time they hold a free concert there on Thursday evenings.
As far as interesting walks however, this one is in the minus column. Perhaps because everything has died down to winter grey and brown...but big open spaces with sports venues don't attract me.
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Interesting to me to see though. And there is something about the wide open sky in big, open spaces that appeals to me.
ReplyDeleteI admit to liking big open spaces too, but somehow this walk wasn't that appealing. Maybe because it was all man-made. So of course I focused on the river, which was there first!
DeleteSwannanoa is a great name. I have never seen anyone playing those frisbee games.
ReplyDeleteAn indigenous name, and sometime or another I knew what it meant. Probably related to the more southern Suwanee River. There was a family with father mother, teenage daughter, baby in stroller, and two hang-along teen girls giggling as two of them tossed the requisite small frisbees at the cage targets...mostly missing.
Delete...I find how rivers connect interesting. They were our first highways.
ReplyDeleteIndeed they were...and with our interstate highways we have no knowledge of how people got to the falls of the rivers by boat, then had to transport on foot or horse above them...if they were coming in from the oceans.
DeleteI like seeing the streams and river there on a pretty blue-sky day in autumn. (NewRobin13)
ReplyDeleteMe too, a nice comfortable view.
DeleteThere is an estate in Virginia called Swannanoa. I assume the people who founded it named it after the river. I recall that the lady of the house was fond of swans, and had a swan bed in their other mansion.
ReplyDeleteIdyllic.
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