Railroad Park

Railroad Park at Sundown

Railroad Park is probably one of me and Patrick's favorite places to go for walks. During the warmer seasons they have a cafe, they have bathrooms and it's a beautiful view of Birmingham. We're hoping this year we'll be able to get down to see a Barons baseball game at Regions Field, I can't wait 'til Wiley is old enough to enjoy going to games. But for now we enjoy walking around the park.

We started to go to Railroad Park the other day when Wind Beneath My Wings by Bette Midler came on the radio, that song always reminds me of my dad since my mom told me the song made her think of him. We were just about to pass the exit to the cemetery both sides of my family are buried at when I asked Patrick to turn and go there instead. We stopped by and after getting lost (it's a gigantic cemetery) I managed to find both my father's family and my mother's father (whose family is originally from St. Louis, MO). My family might be the exception, but we get photos at our family grave site There's a photo of my brother and I sitting on the family headstone as kids, so I insisted on getting Wiley's photos with headstones. Partially because these were the men he was named after. I also insisted on getting Wiles on the family marker, though we'll have a re-do when he's older.

Surprise, Lupe is with us again.

After that we headed on to Railroad Park, where I realized I'd forgotten to get a picture I'd wanted to get at the cemetery. The sky had been really pretty and I was hoping I could get Patrick to lift Wiley up to it and I could take a photo from below of Wiley's face with the sky as a backdrop. We tried it at Railroad Park but I only had our cell phone cameras and by that point it was too dark. I did get some other pretty photos, though. 

You can see the moon up in the sky, too.

Patrick is lucky that I'm reasonably good at photography. His attempts at pics with me weren't quite as good. I'm not going to post all the pics because most of them look like this and it'd be silly.

Ok, this one wasn't the worst.

"You guys are embarassing"

I'm sure in the upcoming months we'll have more pics showing off just how great Railroad Park is. Especially as he gets old enough to play on the playground and run around and explore things.