Walnut Creek
Long ago in the 1850s, Walnut Creek was just ‘The Corners’ because it was simply the intersection of Pacheco and Oakland. Nothing but two dirt roads. But today, it is a bustling city with all a city needs: a library, Main St., and Broadway.
It is a small but beautiful city with flowers and trees of every size and shape. The grass is usually green and no extreme temperatures. Events come once in a short while, and the restaurants are great.
As I said, events come. In Broadway, every April there is a Fine Arts Festival, every May a Creek Clean-Up Day, June the Art and Wine Festival, July a concert, and much more! ARF hosts a Dog Day each year when people bring their dog(s) to the Plaza. It is soon filled with dogs. There are dog baths, dog toys and everything else relating to dogs.
The Heather Farm Park is a great place for rest and parties with its playground, swim center, lake, pond, fields, and brilliant flower beds. They host a ‘Movies Under the Stars’ often, when a movie is shown on the field on a giant inflatable screen and the movies are all exciting!
Mt. Diablo is the great mountain with tons of plants only found on that mountain. Those include the Mt. Diablo Sunflower, the Mt. Diablo Manzanita, and the Mt. Diablo buckwheat. It is a great hiking place and its beauty is endless. On the tippity-top is a great museum about Mt. Diablo but there aren’t many visitors, due to the height and the fact that no cars are allowed on the trail!
Civic Park is a large playground and field. Children play from dawn to dusk. People nap on the lush, emerald grass, and kids fly their kites against the wind. It is very lovely, and very attracting.
Right next to Civic Park is the downtown library, a place filled with books of every kind. You can see their site at ‘www.ccclib.com’. A library card is free and now they are having a summer reading program to win cool prizes, such as an inflatable penguin and Lawrence Hall of Science passes.
Every now and then in the Library parking lot is a farmer’s market, when farmers from all over California sell their food and other items. They aren’t pricey, and they are guaranteed fresh. We buy a lot of food from there and we love it.
Walnut Creek is and amazing and beautiful place! It might have started off just a minute intersection, but now is as high-tech and striking as can be!