city life / pelham bay park

Lately I have been reading a book chronicling farm life (Animal, Vegetable, Miracle), watching movies set in medieval Norway (Kristin Lavransdatter) and dreaming at night about sacred orchards. My apartment is so quiet at times that I forget where I am. I am too broke to go to shows or buy records, maybe this can become a park review blog!
In Washington this would be the sort of place where you would shoot guns and drink forties, and maybe leave an old couch. In New York it feels very exotic. I don't really understand the graffiti on the trees tho, yet the trees themselves don't seem to mind. In the background looks to be a former landfill. I had to ask several trail workers how to get to the water (the "bay", of Pelham Bay Park). There is no obvious map at the park, and the directions I finally did get were a series of mud paths. I especially liked hearing about when I would get to the "promenade", which is where the photos here were taken from. There were at least ten different types of birds, and at the very end, some green ones roosting in the stadium lights that looked like escaped parrots.
It took about an hour to get here on the 6 train. It is the biggest park in the five boroughs.
There are some areas similar to this that I have been to already, but I think they are industrial land, whereas this is a proper park - meaning you have legal right to be there. Anyway, this park scores lots of points, because there is a ton of stuff to climb on and black squirrels too.