Autumn Streets

Street scenes last weekend in the Seongseo Industrial complex on the eastern Daegu. Lots of gingko and plane tree leaves falling on the streets in front of many different kinds of factories showed that this autumn has deepened. Nature is preparing for winter, which is just around the corner.

Autumn Park

Hwangseong Park 황성공원 is a wooden park in the middle of Gyeongju city. The forest consists of pine and oak trees. It used to be a military training camp for the elite youth during Silla dynasty. 

This area has been well conserved for a long time, whose trees also remain intact. The park is located next to Bukcheon 북천, the northern river penetrating the northern Gyeongju. To the north of the park, paddy field, orchards and some small villages scattered here and there a couple of decades ago. There used to be also a gravel runway for small airplanes between Bukcheon and the park. Then Bukcheon was so clean that it turned into a big swimming pool for kids in the hot summer.

The urbanization around the park, especially to the north, had started earlier. Now the park faces a line of commercial buildings and apartment complex to the north. After a new dam was constructed in the upper river about 40 years ago, Bukcheon has been polluted and not suitable for swimming in Summer any longer.  Hwangseong Park still remains like a jewel for all though.

Autumn Tints

Went for a hike to enjoy the deepening autumn around the skirt and took some random photos. The above is a view from the observation tower in Hwawon resort 화원 유원지 on the eastern Daegu.

Hwawon resort 화원 유원지 is set just by the confluence of two rivers, the Nakdong river 낙동강 and the Geumho river 금호강. The photo on the left is about the two rivers, the bigger one on the left is Nakdong and the other on the right Geumho. The photo on the right is the trail up the observation tower on the top of the resort.