A stroll in the park

The weather forecast for today was very good, starting off with a crisp frost together with sunshine from dawn to dusk. This time of year makes me very restless because I would dearly love to be in the countryside so that I could take a good long walk and enjoy the weather and the scenery. Sadly, I'm stuck in this wretched city and if I do go for a walk, I need places where I can either sit and rest every so often, or where there is something that I can lean on for a few minutes until my legs and back have recovered a bit.
So, unable to go back to sleep after waking very early, I got up and decided that after breakfast I would go for a walk. There was nothing I needed in town except some milk, so I decided to go over to Castle Park and thought I could get the milk in the newsagent's on the way home. I got my gloves out of the cupboard, put on my jacket and walking boots and set off.
The sunshine was very bright and lit up the colours on the trees with an almost flourescent effect and I was sorry I hadn't taken my camera. When I got acrosss the park I saw a blind gentleman that I frequently stop and chat to with his guide dog. He takes his dog to the park most days and this is the time when he can be a dog and not work so he gets to play ball and do what dogs do for a while. They had been away for a holiday last week so I asked how they had got on and he told me they had had a really good time as it was in the countryside and also on a canal barge. After chatting awhile we walked on and at the top of the park the man and his dog went on their way and I continued my walk.
There is one area where there are quite a few mature trees and as I walked along the path beneath them I could hear a couple of robins singing at each other from either side of the path. It was obviously a territorial thing and then I spotted one of them and a few minutes later I saw the other one. They didn't actually square up to each other to fight but both moved along what seemed to be an imaginary boundary, each trying to outsing the other. Some parts of the park were deserted and so I was able to watch the squirrels and other birds from quite close quarters but it's always the way though, just as they get used to you and start coming a bit closer, some idiot comes along talking on a mobile at the top of their voice and frightening them all away again.
If we have another morning like today, I must take my camera with me but it won't be tomorrow as we have been forecast some rain!