Hello Asher,
This small park is about 2 miles from where I live. It has served as my outdoor test lab for new gear, and recently I have been looking at it for more than test type shots. I walk to the park on Sunday mornings with a bag of goodies for the ducks and geese that reside there. There is dark blue egret that hangs around the lake also, but it normally relocates to the opposite side of the lake when I bring out my camera gear.
It looks like I will be driving with all my stuff now, as you mentioned, to make an ongoing project of this place.
This one was taken about 30 minutes prior to the leaf shot I posted in the macro forum, early in the morning.
On a technical note, I used the Voigtlander 125 macro this day, and the files it produces are a bit on the low contrast side, but a wonderful range of tones and detail coupled with the 5D make for some good results in Lightroom and Photoshop.
Thank you for your encouragement, I appreciate it
Harvey