Picnic table meal.
It takes me maybe three minutes to walk to this spot from the Liverpool Public Library.
You can sit back if you wish.
There’s a choice. I can spread my sandwich lunch out on a picnic table here at Onondaga Lake Park or lean back on the park bench.
Up the hill and back to work.
It takes maybe four minutes, belly fuller from the Bologna sandwich I’d made at home and a the bag of chips I’d placed beside it, to walk up the hill back to the LPL.
Yeah, 30 minutes for lunch is fine. Just fine.
What did you have for lunch today? Where did you eat it? How long do you get for lunch?
Mark Bialczak 
Looks lovely. I ate lunch in Johannesburg office restaurant where I used to work many years ago, because that’s where I am atm.
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It is very lovely, Vonita. Next trip to the U.S, you come to the East Coast and we sit at this table. 🙂 I’ll go to Johannesburg and eat with you at the office restaurant where you are atm. Oh, a perfect world.
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Hubby refusing any more long distance flights, I will have to do east coast without him!
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OK. Less expensive. 🙂
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That bench looks inviting Mark. I had a sandwich and veggies and dip at my desk. Your plan is way better! ❤
Diana xo
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I used to eat at my desk too often at the big daily, Diana, and it was anxiety-provoking. I was always checking my email and such …
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I don’t usually. It was just one of those kind of days. 🙂
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perfect lunch spot and glad you have the time to get there and back – i eat lunch, on most days, in the cafeteria, with a mix of 3-5 year olds, and it’s always an adventure. )
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Ha! Love picturing your lunch days, Beth. Very much. ❤
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What a gorgeous view. I hope you get to take advantage of that every day.
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Yesterday it was almost-drippy, so I stayed on a bench right next to the library, not wanting to get caught two blocks away when the skies opened, Tony. But otherwise …
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Beautiful spot! Bet it smells good, too – I love the smell of the sea air 🙂
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Lake air not quite the same, Sadie, but I love your spirit and premise! 😉
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It looks lovely, Mark. I’m really happy for you, your new job and your lunchtime view. Me, I ate a frozen lean cuisine at my desk and admired your view. Somehow, it doesn’t really seem fair!
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The perils of D.C.-area congestion, Elyse?!
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Actually, I work out in Fairfax, so there’s no place to go! But my commute is a relative breeze as I just take back roads. NBD thank god. When my office was in Rosslyn it was a 22 minute drive without traffic — at 3 am. But my commute was up to 2 hours some times. Horrible!
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Northern Virginia can be SO congested. As was just-out-of-D.C. P.G. County when I lived down there 33 years ago, Elyse. Oy.
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Traffic has not improved! But at least I can side-skirt it in my current office!
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Here’s to what we can call “surface roads.” 🙂 I used to avoid the Beltway to the P.G. Journal office in Lanham from our rented house in Greenbelt, at all times of the day, Elyse.
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I like to eat my lunch sitting at my kitchen table and looking out into my own back yard with the 6-foot privacy fence and all the mature trees, which are now full, with Cody sitting under the table waiting for that crumb or two that might happen to drop from my sandwich. Such a peaceful break in the day.
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Good scene for you, CM, especially the Cody part. 🙂
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We had fruit salad and creme fresh in the kitchen. We had a long as we wanted but the husband was fiddling with his computer and the phone kept ringing. Your venue looks amazing !
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Creme fresh is the kind of thing that I wonder if I’ve ever had it in a plainer-name label every time I hear it mentioned on a cooking show on TV, Willow. Too bad the ringing phone interrupted you and hubby’s lunch moment. 😦
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We do try to ignore the phone at meal time but we could see the numbers and knew we had to deal with them!!!!
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Nice spot 🙂 I’ve eaten a banana. I’m still on coffee!
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I start every day with a banana and coffee, Joey. Great minds. 😉
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That looks like a lovely place to eat your sandwich. Sometimes I get lunch, sometimes I don’t, depends how crazy things are. But when I do get lunch I sit at my desk and look out my window at all the people coming into the hospital. It’s a pretty nice view but not anywhere as nice as the one you have!!!
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You best eat lunch every day, SD. For your health, right?! Here I am advising a nurse. What’s up with that? ❤
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I think you should eat your lunch on the back of one of those boats. I’m sure no one would mind.
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I have thought of it already, Scott. No action yet. 😮
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Looks lovely. I’d love to join you!
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Blanket invitation for a lunch with me, Barb. 🙂
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Beautiful spot Mark. 30 minutes is perfect for such a spot within sight of your work.
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Yes, I even have tacked a loop around the block for a tad more exercise to the return trip, Paul. 🙂
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Looks so peaceful and calm.
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Except the day of the grade school field trip … 🙂
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