dbigtex56 Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 On 2/11/2021 at 12:21 PM, trymahjong said: Avondale Promenade park seems open. I'm surprised that it didn't open with more pomp and ceremony. Politicians love that sort of thing. Or maybe this is a 'soft' opening? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 i think with this covid mess they probably thought best not to attract a crowd of any kind, so therefore no attention brought to the opening which is a shame...but yeah i like the park! it is fun to see that in the middle of all the buildings along westheimer and hope it is put to good use! :) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trymahjong Posted February 21, 2021 Author Share Posted February 21, 2021 I went to the park today and set on the low brick wall. A treat as I am entering day 6 with NO water..........you take precautions for unpredictable events.........but at the end of your efforts a one hundred year old house has it’s secret pratfalls.....much like the quotation “ when men make plans-God laughs”. My old house must have giggled greatly at the effort we took to prevent the pipes from freezing.” But frozen they were and now even on a Sunday, the plumber has come to fix them. At the park the “thingy” I mistook for a marquee sign is just the shiny back of the electrical box installation.From a distance it looks like a modern big screen TV. I wonder if that space might find a better use for a snippet of history or poetry. None of the COH park rules are installed so children come with their small “leg powered” scooters and use the new smooth sidewalks. All the new plants are frozen and perhaps lost. I have written a few COH members suggesting a wildflower butterfly sanctuary planting, might be a positive effort and also good PR in a city that seems not to have enough positive PR. The memorial monuments aren’t installed although I saw the finished stones laying on the grass last month. All in all all those- it is lovely and peaceful, Iam so grateful for this bit of green reverie within Montrose. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucesw Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 On 12/22/2020 at 8:22 AM, trymahjong said: The park is great but I feel COH is a bit short sighted in what was planted and missed an opportunity. Planting small Texas native - butterfly/ bee friendly - flowers wouldn’t have required much more that rain water. At the time I was ignorant of that of that possibility.But after setting up my own Texas Native plants butterfly garden.......I’m wondering what’s the penalty for guerrilla butterfly gardening in public parks?🤔 Probably no guerilla activity necessary. Check with your city council member or the Parks Dept directly. I think the city welcomes that but they'll want to designate where it goes. My HOA maintains maybe as many as 8 'beds' along S. Braeswood from Brays Bayou Dr. to Gessner with volunteers. One woman spent hundreds of dollars on plantings and untold hours on maintenance. I gave a bunch of plants and went once a week to water during the drought with a trunk full of plastic jugs of water filled from my outdoor faucets. I wanted to give a lot more and add some outside the designated areas but she said that was a no-no. Sounds like a great project to me. I need to get back to that neighborhood with some time to look around. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trymahjong Posted February 22, 2021 Author Share Posted February 22, 2021 I will write to my councilwoman again. I am checking to see what COH penalty is for guerilla plantings ( short booming plants) at base of stop signs in my own neighborhood. 😊Maybe beautification will follow, or rumors of something “beautiful and secretive” going on that will bring the curious to my neighborhood and perhaps the bars and restaurants will get more business because of it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 Cute little neighborhood park, a couple of families where using it already. This looks like a future sign holder. Benches are made to keep people from sleeping on them but a skinny contortionist could probably fit inside them. 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 This is beautiful and it increases the walkability of the neighborhood. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trymahjong Posted March 10, 2021 Author Share Posted March 10, 2021 Finally a commemorative plaque. I don’t promote myself as a witness to what happened to all those souls during the last 50+ years but I was here for the last 15 and agreed that a memorial would bea good thing. A place to visit and reflect. I have attended so many community meeting that concerned the idea of a memorial; so many starts and stops.. Ideas like a plaque in the backyard of Mary’s before it was razed. I viewed the drawings for a memorial on the median at Waugh and California I listened to an idea of writing the developer where 1/2 Price Books stood to dedicate a small corner of Land for memorial as the whole lot was redeveloped. There was another small corner at California and Grant, where remembrance flowers could be placed during pride week; now gone to development. I guess I bring this up because it took so long and I knew the community needed it. i ‘m so glad it’s here for us now. 4 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trymahjong Posted March 23, 2021 Author Share Posted March 23, 2021 New Stained Glass for the chimney swift pavilion 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trymahjong Posted April 22, 2021 Author Share Posted April 22, 2021 Guess COH will have a dedication after all 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trymahjong Posted April 23, 2021 Author Share Posted April 23, 2021 Ceremony postponed because of weather 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 5 hours ago, trymahjong said: Ceremony postponed because of weather In the immortal words of Roseanne Roseannadanna: "It just goes to show you, it's always something - if it's not one thing, it's another." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trymahjong Posted May 21, 2021 Author Share Posted May 21, 2021 Dedication of new park May 25 11am Neartown president and others will speak. not sure what happens if it rains......... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trymahjong Posted May 24, 2021 Author Share Posted May 24, 2021 Too much rain I guess.......COH postpones dedication 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trymahjong Posted June 10, 2021 Author Share Posted June 10, 2021 So COH did post new dedication date—— July 1 However at this point, you wonder why COH doesn’t sent a really nice green plant to be placed at the gazebo, and a really big plywood dedication card............it could save some poor ole communication person a lot of headache with all the posting then postponing then reposting thenrepostponing then.........🙃 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trymahjong Posted April 26, 2023 Author Share Posted April 26, 2023 Councilwoman Abbie Kamin announced that air quality monitors are being place inside park to allow residents to track air quality. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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