A mono Monday in Buttonwood Park
Good Morning, I will be starting the week as I tend to do with a few Mono shots.
I went with some shots from a walk in Butonwood Park today, I thought of it as it is snowing here this morning as I prepare this post, and when the snow finishes and gives a nice coating in the park it will probably look so beautiful.
but not sure, well fairly certain I will not get out for a photo walk to experience it, looks like it will snow on and off all day and the temps today and tomorrow will stay below freezing point, far to cold for me to be out and about in.
I promised my wife a couple of years ago that I would not go out for photo walks if the temp was below 45F which is about 7C I believe, and when i went out when it was cooler than that I had a bad habit of getting a chest infection.
and since I have stuck to that, and I hope I am not tempting fate by saying this , i have not had a chest infection,
NOw i only visited the park a couple of times this year, my favorite spot was walking around the pond, but for most of this year they have bene doing repair work ad upgrades around the pond, making it not good for walking in that area. however I did visit the Zoo ad few times and often after exploring the zoo I would take a walk around other areas of the park and that's when I got these shots
These shots are mostly walking around the outside of the park, which is a popular spot for people to walk. Whenever I drive by there during the day I see many people walking there
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However, funnily enough, not at the time I took these shots, I just noticed there is not one person in virew in these shots
this is the Holocaust memorial
The Holocaust Memorial in Buttonwood Park was designed by University of Massachusetts Dartmouth art professor Peter London. Erected in May 1998 on Rockdale Avenue near the corner of Hawthorn Street, it was the dream of Abraham Landau, the Holocaust survivor who survived 13 concentration and labor camps. Mr. Landau had been a resident of New Bedford, with his wife, Frieda, and family, since 1950. He died in 2000
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and walking further along Rockdale Avenue
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and this is the Barnard Monument in honor of the whalemen,sculpted in 1914 by Hungarian immigrant artist George Julian Zolnay
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