June 30, 2019  |  Elizabeth Park / Realm of Carcosa

Life may be no rose garden, but in Hartford you can still stroll around a fairly big one.

This segued into another ride downtown – this time across the Founder’s Bridge to the River’s east bank.

Then, at the north end of Great River Park, an ominous path I don’t recall having trodden before.

From a twisting lane strewn with broken glass, automobile trim, and puddles containing the effluent of who-knows-what, we emerge…

Alas! Is this area under the watchful “protection” of the Unnameable One?

Probably not. With nary a psychic barrier or dimensional rift in sight, I was able to safely return downtown, where things were as I had left them.

Or are they?