A walk at Lynch

This past week I had a meeting at Hanna’s Town, and since it was an unseasonably warm 70* day, I decided to swing into Lynch Field for a jaunt around the track.  I had been inspired by a little cluster of colored leaves on my back patio and decided to immerse myself in a little fall.  It had been a while since I had been at Lynch, and I forgot about the army helicopter and the playgrounds and how many sports fields there are down there.  The maintenance guys were working on the Veterans Pool complex, and I hadn’t been THERE since I was in high school.  I didn’t even realize there was a giant slide into the deep end.  But as I walked I enjoyed the gurgling of the little creek along the path, and the displays of leaves and trees and foliage.  I especially liked the Willow Trees along the back corner beside Route 119. 

My favorite part of the walk was looking up at the huge Colonial house that had once belonged to a friend of mine’s grandmother.  When Carol and Mike lived there, years ago, we would all gather up at the house (now the humane society) on the Saturday night of the Greensburg Community Days fireworks.  The year that Nate was old enough to help direct parking in their lower yard he felt like a million bucks – and even made a few of those bucks as a reward for a job well done.  He was beyond excited.  We all took snacks and munchies to share, and blankets and chairs to sit on, and lounged back after dark to watch the fireworks burst over head into the clear night sky.  Some happy memories back then, gathered with friends. 

By the time I had finished the end of the mile walk, the temperature had dropped about ten degrees, the sun had lost itself in the gray clouds, and the wind was swirling the leaves around me as I hurried to the car.  It was a good walk, a good clearing of the mind, and a good walk down memory lane.  It spanned several decades, from swimming there as a teenager, to taking the kids and even grandkids ice skating, and watching fireworks on the front lawn.  I won’t wait quite so long to take that walk again!