Being a soccer nut, each new artificial turf soccer field that replaces the old dirt fields is welcomed with much excitement. Just a few years ago most of the fields were either grass fields in very poor condition or 
dirt. The dirt fields were actually preferred in most cases to the grass fields. Before these dirt fields there were the nasty old fields of pulverized brick that would routinely make any part of your body that was unfortunate enough to hit it look like pizza.
The latest of these fields at Twin Ponds Park, in Shoreline, Washington, is about to be unveiled.
This field when it was dirt had the particular reputation of being very dusty with sand dunes of dust piling up along the side lines. If the wind blew when you were playing you could get lost from one end of the field to the other. Well maybe not quite that bad----but you get the picture. Today the field looks like this. Doesn't it make you just want to run and get a soccer ball? (Steve don't answer)
Take away the soccer field and this would still be a pretty cool park. Like its name implies there are two small ponds with trails that run between them and around them through the woods. Here are some pictures of the ponds and trees.
And one of the ponds occupants.
Charles Buell
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