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Playground At The Copland Park, Age Has No Limits

Anna Lozyk Romeo — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 03:38:03 +0000

Playground at the Copland Park probably has the highest slide, double turn, in the whole Aurora; unless someone will tell me there are others. Today we arrived just before noon. As we were coming down the hill towards the playground I noticed an older man sitting on the end of the slide. He just appeared.

Playground at the Copland Park

I turned to my husband and said, “I think this guy just went down the slide“. Before he could answer me one of his granddaughters asked the man probably in his late sixties the same thing “did you just went down the slide?“. We didn’t hear the answer but his second granddaughter asked “did you hurt your bum?“. Looks like he did go down the slide then.

Perhaps he was tempted to try this dare-devil slide and he didn’t hold back. When I was growing up these slides didn’t exist, just the straight down metal ones. May be when this man was growing up there were none.

Playground at the Copland Park

Most of our visits to the Copland Park are interesting one and this one was too. Matthew made friends with a little boy. They played very well together and when we asked Matthew that it was time to go home, the tree year old Mason said “you mom and you dad go home, Matthew will be playing with me“. But that didn’t sit well with Matthew. We allowed them to play for another 10 minutes. The two boys had a blast.

This is another super hero story. It is amazing how children engage to play so fast when they have somethings in common. Matthew brought his Man of Steel figurine and little Mason had Superman shirt on. Both of them played so well from the moment Matthew said to him “I love your Superman shirt“. They may not see each other again but they hugged like best friends.

Gold-y Fish Activity At The Cop-Land Park

Anna Lozyk Romeo — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:57:30 +0000

One questionable activity at the Copland Park wasn’t enough to write about, but two – I definitely have to mention it. We have been regularly visiting this playground at the Copland Park because of the Wonderland-like slide – the double turn slide. Not to mention the trail between Aurora Heights Drive and Orchard Heights.

Let me go back to the Victoria Day weekend. We came to the park day after the Victoria Day. It was striking to see how bad the park looked with all the accumulated fireworks garbage. Town of Aurora parks and recreation worker was on the site cleaning up. As always we had fun despite the mess.

As we were leaving, strangely enough a man in a van pulled over and came to the park. He was looking for something around the garbage area. Nothing was found. The man left empty handed.

Copland Park, Aurora

Last weekend we or rather our Matthew decided on the Copland Park again. He just loves the double turn slide. When we arrived, already playing on the playground was a father and grandfather with a little boy and a girl. I mentioned to my husband, I guess on the playgrounds in general, weekends are father days and weekdays are mother days.

However, when we arrived there was someone else – a man walking around with the metal detector. He was looking for something – not hard to guess that he was looking for metal based products. He too left empty handed unless he found something before our arrival.

Copland Park, Aurora

So how wacky is that? Someone please tell me that we have a gold mine at the Copland Park in Aurora.

And now if you want to see something funny, here is priceless photo taken by Peter from Aurora – yes for real, the squirrel is really eating a cheese sandwich.

Love In The Air & Only In The Bug’s Life Here In Aurora

Anna Lozyk Romeo — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 03:34:44 +0000

Nature is wonderful. You never know what will appear in front of you. This time I didn’t have to look. This isn’t my best clear shot but it is my best action shot and romantic one too, for the bug of course.

I took this photo walking the Copland Park trail system, a bypass from Aurora Heights Drive to Orchard Heights Boulevard. I don’t have much ideas what to write today, but I thought it is interesting photo to showcase. For those who think that it is bug’s reflection – just look at the wings.

Suddenly Awaken To Smell The Flowers Or May Be Not, Copland Park

Anna Lozyk Romeo — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 02:46:32 +0000

Sure enough summer will be over. I wouldn’t be thinking about the summer end yet but the other day I was passing by the clothing area at the Superstore and they had a shelf full of winter gloves on display. Are they saying that we will have an early winter? Who needs Wiarton Willie then?

So yes I was suddenly awaken by the pile of gloves, glad not enlightened by them and Wiarton Willie seems useless when awaken right now. But really summer is ending – days are getting shorter and much cooler. Perhaps we should slow down a bit and still enjoy the rest of the summer and what’s left. Perhaps there is still a time to stop and smell the flowers.

Beetle on the flower, Copland Park, Aurora Heights Drive

If you look around there are plenty of blooming flowers in the open fields around Aurora. The reality is that you don’t want to smell the flowers. For the second time I was suddenly awaken when I looked at some of my macro shots of a beetle on the flower.

Back in June we went for a hike at the Copland Park trail system off Aurora Heights Drive. It was a very nice walk through the forest. Not sure if I want to call it a forest, may be a trail path between subdivisions and surrounded by trees is a proper explanation. We could actually hear people talking at their backyards.

Now back to the beetle on the photo. The beetle hovering on the flower is no more than 5 mm in length, body and the nose or whatever you want to call that think attached to his head. The insect beside him is approximately one fifth of the beetle. That means that this small insect is only 1 mm in length. So this is why you don’t want to smell any kind of flower. Just the things you will be inhaling in addition to pollen.

Oh sometimes those sudden awakenings are not in my favor. All my life I been smelling flowers and I now may have to hold myself back.

Victoria Day Fireworks In Aurora, A Messy Day After

Anna Lozyk Romeo — Wed, 23 May 2012 03:49:37 +0000

It is unfortunate that after any celebration there is always a mess. For the first time today we visited the playground at the Copland Park. I have not seen all playgrounds in Aurora yet but this is probably the highest play structure I have ever seen. Three levels and the humongous, enormous slide. Matthew loved it.

Playground at the Copland Park, Aurora

It was nice outing for the morning after Victoria Day. It was also nice to have a small convenience store near by as we treated ourselves with ice cream sandwiches. Matthew had Oreo ice cream sandwich and I, (never again), the Skinny Cow ice cream sandwich. On the other hand, it was not nice to see all the garbage in the park left after the fireworks.

Left Out Garbage, Copland Park

By looking at my blog stats today – traffic on this blog yesterday was enormous just like that slide. Everyone was searching for activities or fireworks (a combustible or explosive device for producing a striking display of light or a loud noise) demonstrations in Aurora. We have not gone anywhere on Monday and not sure if there were any activities in Aurora.

Left Out Garbage, Copland Park

Firecrackers were popping since Saturday. The biggest display we were able to watch from our window was on Monday night when someone set something up at the Hamilton Park, the soccer field. Not sure why it was allowed since we have hydro lines over the park.

Left Out Garbage, Copland Park

Speaking of mess. Copland Park had a pile of garbage as of result of fireworks. I hope that whoever was doing fireworks had permit to do so – that is fireworks. I read the Town of Aurora fireworks by-law and it is unfortunate that the by-law does not call for – take your mess with you after you are done. Or may be that is what the $25 is for.

Left Out Garbage, Copland Park