Murphys Creek Park

Memories to cherish.

 This is Murphys Creek Park. The first picture include the little waterfall (about a foot tall, maybe 18 inches) and has the gazebo and bandstand in the back. The second picture is the creek with its bridge, taken from the steps of the library (below). At the top of the steps is one of many Celebrated Jumping Frogs of Calaveras County.

In the summer the creek is full of children, wading, inner tubing, splashing. It's deep enough to be a lot of fun, and shallow enough to accommodate young children with their parents. It's also shallow enough to warm the water, which starts out as snow melt a few thousand feet up the hill. School started this week, and now the creek is empty.

There will be one more First Friday Concert in the Park next week. Different restaurants, stores, caterers prepare an $8 picnic meal, and we all sit on benches, lawn chairs, quilts, and listen to great local music, and some of us dance. That sounds like I'm one of the dancers, but I'm not. It is lovely to see couples who have been dancing together for decades, teenagers, young children, all out on the open dance space.