New Park Benches

We take morning walks in the neighborhood park regularly. It’s the destination we use when I don’t have a specific photo challenge that warrants a trip in to town. The other day we saw a bunch of new concrete slabs being put it where the old park benches used to be. The old park benches didn’t have any arms and were quite low to the ground. So we assumed the old benches were going to be replaced with something that met the new standard. We were right. The old wooden and worn benches were replaced with black metal ones that had arms and were raised higher from the ground. They seem to meet the need, but the old rustic benches seemed to fit in better. There are also a bunch of concrete semicircles put in and we still have no idea what they are for. The whole park is being upgraded with a new huge extensive children’s playground and another exercise area meant for older kids and adults. The basketball area was completely facelifted but still isn’t used very much. The biggest activity is the pickleball court where there is always action going on. That was resurfaced last year. The entire project is supposed to be completed by the end of the year. It will be nice to be done with all of the construction.