Got a Happy Story? Two hundred and fifty diaries Edition!

I don't know how this happened. I'm still not sure why it happened but I'm celebrating anyway. Of the many gains that can be found here writing diaries is a great hobby for a blue collar working stiff like myself because it activates my rapidly dimming brain.

This week when sardonyx offered a quick and easy method of counting both comments and diaries in Top Comments: Meteor Blades on Daily Kos, part 1, I checked my stats and saw 248! Since I posted A Simple Action to get those Electric Cars Rolling yesterday, that makes this diary the Big 250!

I don't know how to celebrate. How about a few photos from my Happy Walk on Tuesday?

I'm sure you've heard that New York City can get pretty wild. The wild photos in this diary come from a park in my neighborhood. Sometimes I have trouble believing that Van Cortlandt Park is in the Big Apple.  

Here is a photo of the lake that sits at the entrance to the oldest public golf course in the United States;

And the very serene pond that is just north of the lake;

Tuesday was one of those hazy, hot and humid days. The forest was a little cooler but this inviting seat was a welcomed sight;

There were all of these beautiful white flowers on the trail;

It was a good day for flowers. Here's a NYC marsh mallow that really isn't very good for S'mores;

A moth (or is it butterfly) enjoying some shade beneath the button bush flower;

And a bee catching a drink from the pickerel weed;

I don't know what this one is but if it were up to me this would be the forest strawberry;

Here's another mystery. Try and figure this one out;

That pond that always seem to go all Claude Monet on my eyes is one of my favorite places in New York;

And the bird house that is on an island where nobody can go. That's just fascinating;

I really needed that walk after all of the hours I've been putting. I am so happy that next week instead of loading in Mostly Mozart I will be flying to Austin to spend some quality time with the best people on earth.

Now if you don't mind my repeating myself, here is a photo not from Tuesday but from the same place. This was the pond last summer and the photo I featured in Got A Happy Story? Colin Fletcher Edition

Well actually that photo isn't the only repeat in this diary. A very similar post is front paged right now at The EENRblog. I wanted to write a separate Got a Happy Story but I really have been that busy.

I have to say that I'm pretty happy to have two post front paged there in the same day. I wasn't there for either of them because I just walked in the door from work but it feels good.

And then there are those two hundred and fifty diaries. That has been a really good trip and this place has been a really great education.  

How about you? Do you have any happy stories to share?