Roy Brown Park

Roy Brown is the WWI pilot from Carleton Place who has been credited with shooting down the infamous Red Baron. There is a mural honouring him in town as well as a statue of his likeness. I have posted of these before, but there is also a recreational area named after him. We haven't visited that park for a long time, but we recently decided that we should.

It is yet another area with woodsy trails. I applied filters to try to jazz up this photo. I don't like it now, but it does reveal some of the path and woodland.

In one spot, I found a length of trail where someone had laid down rocks as if it were an entrance of some sort. I found this a very odd placement. It was like a shortcut where the trail bent around. We followed the broader main trail.

Odd Path, Not Taken

It was also odd to find a plaque commemorating a WWI battle deep in the woods, but it makes some sense, given the park's name. You probably can't read it, but it notes that five men from Carleton Place were lost in the Battle of the Somme. Terrible business.

I had forgotten about this footbridge over the rocks that must mark the path of the wash in a heavy rain or spring runoff. I took the photo because it reminds us all how close we are to bedrock in this region. It's just below the surface.

I was excited to come to the pond but startled to see it empty after our drougtish summer.

That was the end of the walk, well not the walk because we still had to find our way back to the beginning, but it was the end of my photos.

Speaking of going back to the beginning, I had taken this photo back just before we entered the park. Two kids were snuggled up on the bench. I suspect that at least one of the them was skipping classes from the high school on the other side of the park. Or perhaps one or both were on their spare. It was sharp-eyed Sue who noticed that there were only two legs for the two bodies.