park

Papa’s World – Taking lunch break in Charlotte!

/ Tom / Leave a comment

We had a busy schedule for the Conference at the Convention Center in Charlotte – so we walked –

as we have done all week – from our AIRBNB to and from the Convention Center through downtown Charlotte!

Walking across the street in this beautiful park – lots of shade and places to sit!

A church – blue sky – white clouds and a reflection on glass!

The ladies of TEAM GENERATIONS posing in the square!

Walking in the park with the change of colors of leaves on the trees!

Lunch break over – now back to the Convention Center for the afternoon session of the JP Conference.

Linda and Sherry – memory from lunchbreak – PAPA’S WORLD – my site: livinglifedoingitmyway.blog

TAKING A LUNCH BREAK FROM A CONFERENCE IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA!!!!

Papa’s World – Sunset at Ocean Isle Beach!

/ Tom / Leave a comment

In our SENIOR years – things to do – go to the museum and learn the history of OIB and Sunset Beach!

That is exactly what we did – learning that Native Americans were here hundreds if not thousands of years before the first explorers came!

And they inhabited what is now called SEA TRAIL – where today three golf courses and homes for thousands of people!

After all this, we walked out to the parking lot and were met with this sky!

Sherry is walking to the car – beyond is the park where live entertainment is on the stage for the Summer concert series.

Beyond that are restrooms – splash-pad – playground and they are building a basketball court –

pickleball courts and a covered picnic area.

A beautiful sky after an informative lecture on the history of OIB and Sunset Beach!

View of Sunset Beach from the pier – thanks for reading PAPA’S WORLD – my site: livinglifedoingitmyway.blog

PAPA’S WORLD – SUNSET AT OCEAN ISLE BEACH!

Papa’s World – The beginning and end of a good day – in between sitting by the ICW in the park!

/ Tom / Leave a comment
In this case – we found a place in the park!

We had an early morning walk – the sun had already come up and it was the beginning of a good day!

Cameron Woods Community – looking East!

After walking in the community – we decided to go to Sunset Beach and see what was happening in the park on the mainland side.

This park sits on the banks of the ICW – and has these giant live oak trees –

providing shade – paved walking trails and benches to sit on.

Also – three-person glider swings – all facing the water!

In a small portion of the park – people bring their own chairs.
Our view as we sat on a glider-swing!
One going fast and one going slow – as it is in life in general! The views of the ICW!

We had restrooms nearby – picnic tables and a shelter – a car nearby and walking distance to ice cream!

Places to eat were also close by – as was the boat launch.

In the couple hours we were there – hundreds of boats came by on the ICW!

We will go back – take our chairs – cooler and food – find a place in the shade and just relax.

A 15-minute drive from our home in Cameronwood Community – on the mainland side-

SUNSET BEACH PARK.

Thanks for reading and once we got back home the sun was starting to set –

an end to a very good day!

PAPA’S WORLD – livinglifedoingitmyway.blog

Papa’s World – growing up – ELDRED PA.

/ Tom / Leave a comment

Sitting on the front porch of North Main Street –

It was a wide and deep porch –

The kind to sit through a rain storm –

and not get wet !

GOOD MORNING
Welcome to Papa’s World

I guess that is why now when I look at houses –

The very first TWO THINGS I look at are –

Front porches and screened in back three seasons rooms with views !

My childhood had the first but not the last !

Memories – some you just can not duplicate

My grand ma – siting out there on her lap –

I somehow do remember that –

which would make me 3 or 4 years old.

Roller skates – the kind that had a key –

I would strap them on and down the street I would go.

The street on both sides was lined with huge old trees –

The kind that six kids holding hands could not encircle the trunks !

Much – much bigger than this one

The roots had made the side walks uneven –

and to navigate them did not seem to slow me down !

I would turn around at Slavins – furniture store –

Back then it was also a service station –

And I remember Jack – he worked there.

There was a Coke machine that sat outside between the bays

Sometimes he would buy me a coke that came in a glass bottle !

Main Street in the late 1800’s

I lived all the way to the top of this old picture on the left –

some of those buildings still existed when i was growingup

And a few are still there today.

You can see the beginning of those trees even back then.

Then – I got my bicycle –

A red WESTERN FLYER !

The mountains or hills where I lived

That bike – I had those streamers coming out of the rubber handle grips

And a clothes pin with a card on the spokes –

both front and back.

I rode it everywhere – to the park –

across the tracks –

Up Barden Brook –

And just making it home when the street lights came on !

The streets I rode on

The park – my second home away –

base ball diamond – tennis and basketball courts –

But – the outfield of grass –

beneath the huge telephone poles with lights on them !

Where we choose up teams

and played football for hours !

Back home playing golf in the mountains – hills

Papa’s World – Growing up ELDRED PA.

Part two to follow

after all –

to much to see and tell !

If you would like to read more – just type in

livinglifedoingitmyway.blog

email fitztdf@aol.co

Sherry – certified health coach

For HEALTH & NUTRITION

http://www.sf.juiceplus.com

email

ssherrylynn49@aol.com

Thank you for reading Papa’s World

Part two coming