I learned yesterday that there is a public art park around the corner from where my girlfriend Chris live so I decided to do my morning walk there. The Caponi Art Park was created by an artist as a peaceful public space in which he could also display some of his sculpture work and work of others. It covers both sides of Diffley Road with a tunnel under the road for getting back and forth. The South side of the park is 40 acres of nature trails through natural forest with a small lake (Minnesota has 10,000 of them), open spaces for events and an amphitheater for performances and one sculpture.
![Caponi Art Park](https://jumpstartmyheart.michaelhelmke.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Caponi3.jpg)
The North side of the park is 20 acres of nature trails through some forest and more shaded open spaces with lots of sculptures, paths, hills, grassy plains, a labyrinth, and a cat. It was really beautiful and peaceful. If I work up to 3 miles of walking a day I should be able to get there by foot. I drove today since I was going to the farmers market and then other shopping.
I went to the wrong farmers market first. I.e. the parking lot was empty because it was Saturday rather than Sunday. Then I went back and picked up Chris and we finished the market at the right place and some other shopping.
I made a couple of summer salads we like (cucumber, ginger, onion, cilantro and eggplant, mango, noodle, basil, cilantro) and it was a nice relaxing day.