Growing up in the city, there were lots of places to skate. The most popular venue was at the Allen Avenue pond in the North Deering area. Ah... there were lots of girls there. It was the family skating spot too. I skated there many, many times. Now, venturing to the Oaks was a real treat. One of our parents would drop us off late morning and pick us up again mid-afternoon. The many Evergreen Cemetery ponds were close by and good places for hockey. Behind Deering High School and here at Capisic Pond were places I skated seldom, maybe twice each. However, I never remembered it having so dense a crop of cat tails, as seen in this picture taken on Sunday morning. As you can see, it's certainly encroaching on ice time.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Pond Skate
Growing up in the city, there were lots of places to skate. The most popular venue was at the Allen Avenue pond in the North Deering area. Ah... there were lots of girls there. It was the family skating spot too. I skated there many, many times. Now, venturing to the Oaks was a real treat. One of our parents would drop us off late morning and pick us up again mid-afternoon. The many Evergreen Cemetery ponds were close by and good places for hockey. Behind Deering High School and here at Capisic Pond were places I skated seldom, maybe twice each. However, I never remembered it having so dense a crop of cat tails, as seen in this picture taken on Sunday morning. As you can see, it's certainly encroaching on ice time.
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Any kids still skate on the ponds? I hope so.
ReplyDeleteI still to this day skate on a pond, down my road...that is when it is frozen enough to skate without falling through! It's a big pond and behind it is 3 swamps that are fun to skate on, you just have to dodge the rocks and such that stick up from the mucky ground. Figure 8s and twirls and twists! Skating is fun...and a good time to brag about your skills...that is if you don't fall!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great kid you were, so busy, so eager to embrace the opportunities presenting themselves to you. No wonder you grew up to be such a fun Birdman.
ReplyDeleteThis is a wonderful 'warm' photo if you understand what I'm trying to say.
ReplyDeleteYou'll have to show us the same view in a couple of weeks. I'm sure it looks lovely when it's all white... with skaters.
Wonderful memories. I saw my childhood home last summer I couldn't figure out how the new occupants shrunk it.
ReplyDeleteIt's a lovely photo and reminds me of skating on outdoor ice too. Yes, it will be iced over soon. :)
ReplyDeleteIn Illinois, all the good skaters had names that ended in -ski. Jaslowski, Rutkowski, Maciejewski.
ReplyDeleteThis is a beautiful scene.
What a lovely picture! Unfortunately I have never skated on a pond.
ReplyDeleteLois- Pond skating under a starry, starry sky, a fire nearby? The best!
ReplyDeleteNice photo, nice memories. I grew up on the North Shore of Massachusetts, and the two big skating places were the Mill Pond (right below my house) and the Meadows. But I played basketball and could barely stand up on skates . . .
ReplyDeleteIce skating on a pond was not a part of my childhood. But I bet it was fun. Somehow you are immune to the cold and such when you're a kid. Not sure if I could survive long out there as an adult!
ReplyDeleteI grew up in North Dakota and enjoyed ice skating on a pond in my neighborhood. Great memories.
ReplyDeleteclean and clear
ReplyDeleteI remember learning to skate while living in ME. I walked down Glenn St. to a pond across from my school in Caribou. Moved to Rapid City, SD and continued to skate. Gave it up for a year while living in Knoxville, TN and then came to Ohio. I didn't know how to act on ice that was cleaned by a machine and not a broom, shovel or push plow board that had been mad by someones dad.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a great place to skate. What memories you must have.
ReplyDeleteFrozen toes that stung when they thawed, boys tugging scarfs off your neck, red rover game only on ice skates, crawling home on my knees as my feet were completely frozen, hurting feet as I peeled off my skates when I got home, standing over the heat register as my feet thawed and ached, going out the next day to the skating pond to do it all over again -- because I loved it! Thanks for jump-starting my youthful skating memories -- barbara
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