Seattle Park After Horsetail Cutting. Bat Swamp Land

Okay, here are photos of the "neighborhood park" after my Tweets and general complaining about what a mess it was. Before noon on Thursday, you couldn't even SEE the wood steps up the hill. That sidewalk on the street front was also covered with grit, stones, and weeds.

See the "Leash Your Dog. Scoop Law" sign? That went up the day after I called to complain about the poop smell and loose dogs at the park. My resident neighbors had been complaining about that for months---why didn't they call the Parks Dept.? Seattle has excellent Parks and Streets Depts.

At my previous apt. complex there was a large crack in front of our building, right across from a public library. After many months it grew to a sink hole and yes, Diane gets tired of always being "a complainer." It was HUGE and I actually was afraid it might encroach upon my building. I told the building Mgr.--nothing. I doubted he cared. Due to construction, large semi-trucks were diverted down my street and made the hole deeper by the day.

Finally I called the "pothole" number and within 24hrs it was completely repaired.

And there is the WIDE "ADA compliant" (well, yeah, trucks need to drive through---I'm SO sure people with disabilities was what the designer had in mind, right.) entrance in the 2nd photo.

That huge building in the first photo is the retirement community, and that shows about half of it. I wonder how many seniors were on the advisory board for the park design...oh, right---NONE!

In my mind this is no park at all. It is a stab at art. And even at that it fails because of the uncontrollable Horsetails that came with the soil that was delivered there. Oh well, those horsetails won't bother the bats and birds which have been encouraged to nest at this park. That's right, bats.

Next I'll take photos of the "pond," located in the center of the "park." Seriously, WHO thought this was a good use of citizen money?