A walk along Nanakita River - continued

 I entered Nanakita Park and discovered some graffiti in one of the paved areas.

 As I looked arou, I found that some of it was pretty good. This elephant was quite well done.

 As was this bird. Japanese, both young and old, read an incredible amount of manga, comic books, and most school age children start to imitate their favorite authors, so all most every student is a competent cartoonist.

 All along the bank of the river there are posts like this. They are use as surveying markers to determine how much the ground shifts during earthquakes and how much the river moves around as a natural part of its flow.

 The bridge marks the west end of the park. The paved paths circle around the outside and weave around the middle so it is a great place to walk. In the morning there are always people, like the man in this picture, getting their daily exercise.

These cracks in the path were not made by the 3/11 quake and its aftershocks, but by one of the earlier tremors of which there have been many. You can tell because the cracks have filled in and are now supporting a nice crop of grass. The cracks from the recent seismic activity have only a little grass, but by next it will be hard to distinguish when they were made.