you + me forever
June 24, 2010 | Filed Under inspired, ordinary
old playground equipment, i just love the stuff. it reminds me of being free and having long hair and being made fun of for always being dirty in the summer. it’s not plastic, it’s wood and metal and you can get burns and splinters. the walls on the slides aren’t high. the swings are hung with chains that make your hands smell like oiled metal. this is a barrel that you stand in with your friends and walk in the same direction together and scream for awhile as you whirl the thing about. kids carve bad words and love promises in the planks of it. it was a shady place to sit in a U while you caught your breath and let the sunny place on the top of your head cool off for a minute until you ran off again.
i started a flickr set of my own to remember these things but i also found this old playground furniture pool. what a great elephant slide!
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When I was in school in the backwoodsy boondocks, we had giant primary-color-painted cement tubes (the kind I think are normally used for underroad water passage) for playing in and running through; so cool inside no matter how hot the sun. Haven’t thought about that for awhile. Thanks.
Are these things from Canton? Because they seem strangely familiar!
~Chelsey (whom you used to babysit) : )
chelsey, they’re actually from that park in farmington. the church used to have picnics there.