Squirrel Park

A few months ago, my son and I spent part of a Saturday morning playing in a small park located at the intersection of Weaver St. and N. Greensboro St. in Carrboro, NC.



This park has two old oak trees and a sculpture, but it's wedged between a major road and a parking lot, and I have rarely seen anyone use the space.

When we visited last fall, we found that it is a good place to watch the world go by, and to watch squirrels gathering acorns.

We returned a few weeks ago to see if we could get some squirrel watching in, but the squirrels were not in evidence. We did, however, discover that one of the oak trees has a hollow at the bottom. We decided to use my phone to take photographs of what it looks like inside: