Not far from where I live, one of the city's oldest and most popular parks with its own golf course lies along the southern side of UNO's campus. It has glorious trees and so is one of my favorite walks, a well-protected flat between two ridges. It's the playground I once took my nephews and nieces to, babysitting while my sisters did as they pleased, shopping and such. Shakespeare in the Park is on its north side in the hot summer, when the east-end swimming pool is also open. The flat has people practicing medieval warfare, dogs catching frisbees, softball games, picnickers, students parking or running, a constantly changing group within the huge U of the golf course that lies mostly on the hills. Wild ducks hide in the wooded area of a little polluted stream, along with a marmot (woodchuck) and, from recent evidence, some beavers, and it is a good birding site. Despite its name--most of our elms disappeared with the elm disease several decades ago--most of the trees are a variety of oaks, with several other species thrown in: cottonwood, sycamore, pine, cottonwood, larch, and such. And they ravish the eye in autumn.
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