Great idea for (any) Mother's Day in Kansas City

Want a great way to enjoy this or any Mother's Day?

It's cheap, since it's free, it's entertaining as heck, it's pleasant and positive. There nearly isn't enough good I can say about it or recommend about it.

In Kansas City, go to Loose Park.

Wow.

To begin, the park is packed, sure, but in a totally manageable way.

It's full of families and daughters and sons and husbands and yes, moms, all over the place doing a whole vareity of things by all types of people. It makes it great for people-watching since there are all ages and from all over town.

Most any Sunday, in Loose Park, is great, depending on the weather, naturally, but Mother's Days are especially great. It's so nice to see the families out, the children, taking their moms out.

Sure, the Plaza and other places are loaded with people but there's something far less commercial about this day in that park. It's happier. It's less loaded with the assumption of taking Mom to lunch or dinner. It's just great.

It can make you feel good about America and society, if even for a moment or day.

Happy Mother's Day, to all the Moms out there.

The latest and greatest--KC in the NYT this Sunday

This is always cool--as I said, our very own Kansas City highlighted in the travel section of The New York Times this Sunday.

How cool is that?

And the thing is, it's online right now. Check it out:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/travel/16hours.html

To further heighten its coolness factor, they're saying in the article what I've said here a few times and that is, wait until next year, when the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts opens.

There will be no holding us back, then.


Have a great weekend, everyone.

 

And there had to be at least one kite-flyer out there and here he was.

 

The late afternoon sun makes for good, warm, easy shots at times. I'm not saying this is one but it could be.

 

And we'll have to remember that this was also the day that KU played a grudge/rematch with MU. (and that MU just barely won, by two points, which had to be painful for all the KU fans, of course).

 

You'll find I covered this once but I liked the perspective and light I got on this one, that's all.

 

The jogging trail, of course, around the park. Several people were taking advantage of it and the warm temperatures, of course.

 

I don't know what they are or what the plant is but they were beautiful, of course, and I loved the late afternoon sunlight.

 

To repeat, brilliant day. And I've always loved this house. (How do you not?)

 

Living on the Plaza as I do (hey, it's an affordable apartment, folks), I get to Loose Park fairly frequently, over the years. I have to say, this was absolutely the busiest I've ever seen the playground there--and that's saying something. This doesn't even really show how very busy it was, too, and all the energy that was coming from it.