A stone shelter placed exactly where the path decides to bend, which is either very good planning or a happy accident that everyone since has agreed to keep.
Empty parks in full sun are strange places. Everything about them is designed for crowds — the benches, the wide paths, the shade — and when nobody turns up the whole arrangement looks like it is waiting for something.
Paths do the work
Give a viewer a path and they will walk it with their eyes, all the way to wherever it goes. This one curves out of frame behind the pavilion, which means it goes nowhere and therefore everywhere, and the photograph is more interesting than the park deserves.
The sky is empty because I waited twenty minutes for it not to be and then gave up. Some afternoons there simply are no clouds and you photograph the day you were given.
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