Iroquois Park

Flush from having recently visited our landmark 100th park, we couldn't wait, when we both got home late from work last night, to rush out to visit another city park. But in our haste we forgot to bring our camera, so no pictures this time around (a first for us). And just a quick report: Iroquois is closer to our house than any in Ann Arbor (other than Burns Park) but we had yet to walk over there. Over the years we've known quite a few people who've lived on this leafy semi-circle of a block (which wraps around the southwest corner of Packard and Stadium), and on this night we met some new folks -- a very friendly couple, sitting comfortably on the patio in front of their house, enjoying a drink in the cool night air. A simple hello led to a 10-minute talk about our city park quest, and they seemed genuinely thrilled to hear of it. We had to move on before it got too dark to see their little neighborhood park -- nestled between two other lots just a few house to the east of them -- and we strolled blissfully home thinking as much about the nice people we've met along the way as the beautiful scenery and foliage we've seen.