Silver Lake Park, Dappled as the Seasons Change

Linus Gelber

Despite appearances, this is the coming of spring - this tree is flowering a golden yellow, as the larger growth in the background ponders the weather and wonders if it's time yet. I've just had my hair cut down on Forest Avenue, and it's the kind of afternoon that begs for a walk in the park: so.

I'm trying some new stuff in this shot, which bigs up pretty well.

Two years ago - 104 weeks - the Utata photo group got all tribal, as we're wont to do, and headed out of a Thursday to take some pictures of whatever happened to be in our way. Flush with imagination, we called this The Thursday Walk. With its focus on walking and seeing and finding, and its total lack of rules - even "Thursday" is loosely defined, and for a time I was an inveterate Friday Thursday walker - the Thursday Walk has been a pleasure, an inspiration, a source of water when the well is dry, and sometimes a pain in the ass.

I haven't done it every week, but I've done it when the spirit moved me, and over the two years some of my best work has come out of my Thursdays. You can see more of my Thursday Walk images here on Flickr, and see what else the group got up to on the Utata site for this anniversary Thursday.

This photo has been spotted as high as #235 in the Flickr daily Interestingness charts.

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