I knew today would be a busy day for me (portrait session at 10 am, commercial job at 4), so I slipped off to America’s best urban park shortly before 7 this morning. It was already filling up! There were exercisers in front of the Worlds Fair Pavilion, and folks setting up booths along a number of the roads through the park to offer the runners and walkers water and a “sugar lift”.

Fire trucks were there, and extra police (though there weren’t any fires and the criminal elements seemed conspicuous by their absence). There were traffic control monitors (volunteers), radio station DJ’s, runners, walkers, cyclists and a lot of onlookers.

There was also the usual wildlife contingent of Egrets, Great & Snowy, woodpeckers, robins, Purple Martins, swallows, and others. I found some small insects, watched lots of other photographers at work, looked at all the interesting people and survived a charge by what could easily been a band of fierce Norsemen. Here’s the proof.