Built in 2011, the park joins the extended trail of the Atlanta Beltway and on Father's Day, next Sunday, June 21, there will be a Family Walk through this park and further on. This scorching hot evening, after an outdoor supper nearby in the Grill, I walk with Eleanor, Ryan and Mathew around the lake and gardens salvaged from a trash strewn landscape of storm water runoff and flooding. It serves now as a retention basin. This urban greenscape of blooming grasses and plants is a haven for ducks, geese and human beings in the middle of the city.
Across the way, looms the seven story Ponce City Market (previously the Sears Building), now restored with shops, apartments and restaurants.
We walk around the lake to the tune of bullfrogs croaking and up around the playground where an extended family is grilling and celebrating a luau. All the young girls are dressed in swim suits with grass shirts and leis of flowers around their necks, flowers in their hair.
We pass a drunk sprawled out on a bench, mumbling obscenities to his own demons, his bicycle parked beside him. When we return and pass by again, he is passed out and silent.
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