Family Picture Day

This month in Wichita Falls has been weather-wise perfect! November in a lot of places is cold and dreary, but not here - not now. Instead it should be promoted for the beautiful weather when things get cold and nasty up north. Around here most people get drained of all energy in the summer. The heat just sucks the life out of you from June through mid-September. So what do north Texans do? They go to Durango and Eagle's Nest and just about anywhere else because it is usually cooler than Wichita Falls. So if you want to visit, come in the fall because it's like a nice summer in most "ideal" vacation spots.

I say all that to set the stage for blogging about our trip to the park this morning. A close friend of ours who is a very good photographer was taking our family pictures in this nice fall weather out at Lucy Park. Lucy Park is the biggest and best park in Wichita Falls. It has lots of tall trees, two playgrounds, a city pool, a log cabin for parties, and a long walk path along the Wichita River which ultimately leads to a climactic grand finale at a large three-tier man-made water fall that seems to come from underneath a cemetery up on the hill above it. Just don't think about that too hard. Okay, so it's a little cheesy, but around here you take what you can get in the way of family fun.

It is very nice and lots of people get their pictures taken there. And I mean lots! Everywhere we turned this morning there were families in matching clothes with a photographer. Photographers like this weather, and they were out today. "There's one in a grove of trees! Hey, there's one on the bridge!" This park is well-known for its many squirrels, but in a strange twist I saw photographers out where once I saw squirrels. When we were leaving it struck me as funny me when Joyce said, "Look there's a photographer in those trees! They are really out today."

So if you're an avid nature lover, take a trip out to Lucy Park and enjoy the falling leaves, the rare squirrel, and the annual parade of photographers. P.S. - Don't forget your camera!


--Johnie