Grater Park

Believe it or not what you are basically looking at is a parking lot covered by an overnight Winter storm that dropped 4-6 inches and coated everything in fluffy powder. The park entrance comes in to the left straight in front of me and everything behind the big tree is parking lot. I was blessed with a quiet Sunday morning, very little wind and next to no one to interrupt me! That is until about twenty minutes after shooting this when a crew came through and quite literally stopped their big old pickup dead center between the two trees. They got out, noticed me shooting that direction and kind of chuckled as if to say “sorry dude,we got snow to clear”. I knew they had every right to park where they did to do their job and the one guy asked should we move the truck? I said no need. I had gotten several decent shots before their arrival so I was already quite satisfied with the morning. The park itself was named in honor of a gentleman named Tom Grater who was very active in the local recreation center for years and who I personally interacted with as a young boy. He had a very down to earth way of communicating with kids and was always trying to steer them in the right direction.